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  1. Ecological film theory and psychoanalysis
    surviving the environmental apocalypse in cinema
    Author: Geal, Robert
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, and how these films can facilitate positive real-world... more

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    "This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, and how these films can facilitate positive real-world changes in how people treat the environment. Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis highlights that even these apparently environmentally friendly films exploit cinema's inherent Cartesian grammar to construct texts in which not only small groups of protagonist survivors, but also vicarious spectators, pleasurably transcend the fictionalised destruction. The ideological nature of the 'lifeboats' on which these survivors escape, moreover, is accompanied by additional elements that constitute contemporary Cartesian subjectivity, such as class and gender binaries, restored nuclear families, individual as opposed to social responsibilities for disasters, and so on. The book conducts extensive analyses of these processes, before considering alternative forms of filmmaking that might avoid the dangers of this existing form of storytelling. The book's new ecosophy and film theory establishes that Cartesian subjectivity is an environmentally destructive 'symptom' that everyday linguistic activities like watching films reinforce. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of film studies, literary studies (specifically ecocriticism), cultural studies, ecolinguistics, and ecosophy"--...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780367373429; 0367373424; 9781000405798; 1000405796; 9781000405729; 1000405729
    Series: Routledge environmental literature, culture and media
    Subjects: Environmentalism in motion pictures; Ecology in motion pictures; Environmental psychology; Motion pictures; Motion pictures; Environmental disasters; Ecocriticism; NATURE / Ecology; PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  2. Ecological film theory and psychoanalysis
    surviving the environmental apocalypse in cinema
    Author: Geal, Robert
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York

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  3. Ecological film theory and psychoanalysis
    surviving the environmental apocalypse in cinema
    Author: Geal, Robert
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York

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