Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment

Payne’s The Descendants (2011) has received almost universal critical acclaim as a family melodrama with comic elements and adaptation of t...

The City, The Sewers, The Underground: Reconstructing Urban Space in Film Noir With a map of Los Angeles as its opening title card...

To Live and Ride in LA (2010), directed by David Rowe, is a 55 minute blast through the streets, alleys, highways and even velodromes of Los...

The Last Winter (2006), Half-Life (2008), and The Thaw (2008) draw on elements of a variety of genres (science fiction, animation, eco-terr...

Steven Spielberg’s War Horse (2011), an epic anti-War drama confronting the fight for survival of a Devon horse named Joey in the no-ma...

Perhaps the two most iconic western films of the 1950s, The Searchers (1956) and Shane (1953), have invited a variety of critical readings...