Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment
This blog explores popular film and media and their relationship to the environment.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Cli-Fi and Human Approaches to Ecology
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Cli-Fi and Human Approaches to Ecology Some contemporary monstrous cli-fi films embrace human approaches to ecology. The human...
Winter's Bone and EcoRegionalism
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Winter's Bone and EcoRegionalism Ecoregionalism Themes in Winter’s Bone According to Chester Foster at the Lincoln I...
Monday, October 21, 2019
Jennifer Phang's Cli-Fi Genre and Gender Bender Half-Life (2008)
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One of the few cli-fi films directed by a woman, Jennifer Phang’s Half-Life (2008), focuses less on monstrous nature than family dr...
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Environmental Regionalism Then and Now
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After reading and watching Winter’s Bone for perhaps the fifth time, I’m struck by the works’ connections with early 20 th ...
Sunday, September 29, 2019
The Colony (2013), Cl-fi, and Gender Roles
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The Colony (2013) and Gender Gender sometimes plays a complex role in contemporary cli-fi films. In The Colony (2013) directed...
Friday, September 20, 2019
The Fast and Furious Films and Mad Max Fury Road
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I recently re-watched Mad Max: Fury Road and was struck not only by the film's messages about climate change, water righ...
Monday, September 16, 2019
Snowpiercer (2013) as/and Cli-Fi
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The blatantly eco-horror cli-fi film Snowpiercer (2013) emphasizes both its climate change catalyst and its human focus...
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