Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment
This blog explores popular film and media and their relationship to the environment.
Friday, August 30, 2019
Children of Men (2006) and the New Eco-Hero
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Both The Day After Tomorrow and Children of Men (2006) illustrate similar visions of the new eco-hero. In both films, heroic roles...
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Monday, August 26, 2019
The Day After Tomorrow and the New Eco-Hero
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The Day After Tomorrow highlights a different way to envision evolutionary narratives and the heroes that drive them. In cli-fi...
Sunday, August 25, 2019
Early Cli-Fi: The Day of the Animals and the Greenhouse Effect
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The Day of the Animals (1977) addresses the Greenhouse Effect more blatantly than films from the era like Frogs , while also anthro...
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Cli-Fi Defined: The Case of Frogs (1972)
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In a May 2014 interview, deep-green activist Dan Bloom—arguably the first to use the term cli-fi for climate fiction and film—a...
Thursday, August 8, 2019
What is Cli-Fi, and Why Should We Care? Part I
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Critiques of The Day After Tomorrow point to its exaggerated claims regarding global warming not as a way to highl...
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Film Ecology 2: Hooper and Human Costs
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As with the burning of Atlanta scene in Gone with the Wind, construction and destruction also highlights how H...
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