UID:
almahu_9949386829402882
Format:
1 online resource (249 pages).
ISBN:
9780367373429
,
0367373424
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9781000405798
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1000405796
,
9781000405729
,
1000405729
Series Statement:
Routledge environmental literature, culture and media
Content:
"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"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Geal, Robert. Ecological film theory and psychoanalysis New York : Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367373412
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780367373429
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367373429
URL:
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367373429
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