Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment
This blog explores popular film and media and their relationship to the environment.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
"Waste Land"?
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PRI’s “The World’s” report on Ordos, China’s attempts to integrate composting toilets into an eco-friendly apartment complex reminded me of ...
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Poison Water and Natural Resources in Westerns
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Westerns from the 1950s address some of the same environmental issues discussed in contemporary films like Crude . Broken Lance (1954) , ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Crude as an oil spill film
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Crude follows a pattern similar to that of other oil well films highlighting the need to maintain the separation between nature and culture...
Crude
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The latest news of the Yellowstone River oil spill quickly connects back to Joe Berlinger's Crude (2009). Crude examines the long term...
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Water and Contemporary Cowboy Economics: *Quantum of Solace* and *Water*
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Quantum of Solace (2008) takes water rights issues to the world stage in a genre that draws on the neo-noir of Polanski’s Chinatown. In Qu...
Monday, June 27, 2011
Nukes Fires Floods The China Syndrome (1979)
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The recent conflagration at the nuclear power plants in Japan after the horrifying earthquake/tsunami event has freaked nations all over the...
Saturday, June 25, 2011
National Film Board of Canada Films at ASLE
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Elspeth Tulloch, from the Universite Laval in Quebec City, highlighted three important films questioning food industry practices, all of whi...
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