Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment

In modern mythology, the underground has served as the site of technological progress where excavation produces not only the means of prod...

I had a nice talk to a friend from the Chicago area who started to describe the plans being made by city designers in that area preparing fo...

         A documentary focused primarily on the dangers of mining water to sell, Tapped (2009) addresses issues surrounding exploiting grou...

A conversation with a friend about mowing a three-acre lawn reminded me that short grassy lawns are a relatively recent development in the U...

Farmland flooded to save Cairo, Illinois, reminded me of the 1960 film, Wild River , a fictional feature film validating the TVA projects al...

The River , written and directed by Pare Lorentz and released in 1937, has once again become relevant to contemporary concerns about the ris...

Films dealing with eco-disasters in the 1950s through the 1970s and early 1980s were a serious affair: See in addition to Them ! (1954), Sil...