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  1. Film, environment, comedy
    eco-comedies on the big screen
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their... more

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    "This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that reveals the evolution of both eco-comedy films and theoretical approaches, this book project aims to fill a gap in ecocinema scholarship. It does so by exploring three sections arranged to highlight the breadth of eco-comedy: I. Comic Genres and the Green World: Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral Visions; II. Laughter, Eco-Heroes, and Evolutionary Narratives of Consumption; and III. Environmental Nostalgia, Fuel, and the Carnivalesque. Examining everything from Hollywood classics, Oscar winners, animation to independent and international films, Murray and Heumann exemplify how the use of comedy can expose and amplify environmental issues to a wider audience than more traditional ecocinema genres and can help provide a path towards positive action and change. Ideal for students and scholars of film studies, ecocriticism, and environmental studies, especially those with a particular interest in ecocinema and/or ecocritical readings of popular films"--...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003282136; 100328213X
    Series: Routledge advances in film studies
    Subjects: Environmental protection and motion pictures; Comic, The, in motion pictures; Environmentalism in motion pictures; Ecology in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Ecocriticism; Nature in motion pictures
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (1 volume), illustrations (black and white.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Film, environment, comedy
    eco-comedies on the big screen
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Universitätsbibliothek
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  3. Film, environment, comedy
    eco-comedies on the big screen
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Medien- und Informationszentrum, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003282136; 100328213X; 9781000588569; 1000588564; 9781000588620; 1000588629
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    Series: Routledge advances in film studies
    Subjects: Nature in motion pictures; Comic, The, in motion pictures; Environmental protection and motion pictures; Environmentalism in motion pictures; Ecology in motion pictures; Motion pictures; Ecocriticism; Comedy films; Electronic books; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
    Scope: 1 online resource (vi, 186 Seiten), Illustrationen