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  1. Transnational ecocinema
    film culture in an era of ecological transformation
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Intellect, Bristol

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781783201280; 1783201282; 9781841507293; 1841507296
    Other identifier:
    9781841507293
    Subjects: Motion pictures and transnationalism; Ecology in motion pictures; Environmental protection and motion pictures; Environmentalism in motion pictures; Motion pictures and transnationalism; PERFORMING ARTS / Reference; Ecology in motion pictures; Environmentalism in motion pictures; Environmental protection and motion pictures; Motion pictures and transnationalism; Ökologie <Motiv>; Film; Ecocriticism; Transnationalisierung <Motiv>
    Scope: 238 pages
    Notes:

    Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; PART I: Introduction to Transnational Ecocinema; Introduction: Transnational Ecocinema in an age of Ecological Transformation; Transnational Approaches to Ecocinema: Charting an Expansive Field; PART II: Documentary Politics and the Ecological Imagination; Colourful Screens: Water Imaginaries in Documentaries from China and Taiwan; From My Fancy High Heels to Useless Clothing: 'Interconnectedness' and Ecocritical Issues in Transnational Documentaries; Ecocinema and 'Good Life' in Latin America

    Dimensions of Humanity in Earthlings (2005) and Encounters atthe End of the World (2007)PART III: Popular Film and Ecology; China Has a Natural Environment, Too!: Consumerist andIdeological Ecoimaginaries in the Cinema of Feng Xiaogang; And the Oscar Goes to ... Ecoheroines, Ecoheros and the Development ofEcothemes from The China Syndrome (1979) to GasLand (2010); PART IV: (In)Sustainable Footprint Of Cinema; Climate Change Films: Fear and Agency Appeals; Envisaging Environmental Change: Foregrounding Place in Three AustralianEcomedia Initiatives

    Afterword-Towards a Transnational Understanding of the AnthropoceneContributor Details; Index; Back Cover

    Until recently, discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema. Transnational Ecocinema, open up the critical debate to look at a larger variety of films from many different countries and cultures. By foregrounding these films with their economic and political contexts, the contributors offer a more comprehensive and nuanced look at the role of place in ecocinema. The essays also interrogate proposed global solutions to environmental issues by presenting an ecocritical perspective on different film and cultural considerations from ar

    Includes bibliographical references and index