Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment
This blog explores popular film and media and their relationship to the environment.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
The Swarm as Eco-disaster
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The Swarm (1978) includes an all-star cast and a disaster film director and storyline but focuses on the consequences of killer...
Friday, August 17, 2012
Animation, Live-Action, and the Environment
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Live action has combined with animation from nearly the beginning of film history. Winsor McCay’s Gertie the Dinosaur , whi...
Friday, August 3, 2012
Rodan as Eco-Film
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Some may say that Rodan (1956) could be defined as an eco-film only if the American opening is included to connect the birth of Rodan with ...
Monday, July 23, 2012
Riders of the Whistling Pines: A Post-World War II Film Addressing a Contemporary Environmental Disaster
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In what looks like an anticipation of a 2008 eco-disaster, a lodgepole pine beetle infestation in the high country of New Mexico and C...
Friday, July 13, 2012
Evolutionary Narratives in Jurassic Park
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Although CGI may have helped move the stop-motion animation used in the film to possible extinction, Jurassic Park ’s (1993) narrative...
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