Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment

This blog explores popular film and media and their relationship to the environment.

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Jennifer's Body, continued.

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The first victim we see is Jonas (Josh Emerson), a football player upset about losing his best friend in the bar fire. She lures him ...

Jennifer's Body and Exploitation

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Jennifer’s Body takes an approach to cannibalism that builds on the supernatural elements of Blood Diner and the constructions of m...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Blood Diner (1987) and Exploitation

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In Blood Diner , Michael (Rick Burks) and George (Carl Crew) follow their Uncle Anwar’s (Drew Godderis) direction and construct what ...
Saturday, July 4, 2020

Blood Diner (1987) and Jennifer’s Body (2009): When Women’s Bodies Fight Back

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Although director Jackie Kong’s Blood Diner and director Karyn Kusama and writer Diablo Cody’s Jennifer’s Body differ in their appro...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

An Elephant Sitting Still and Ecology

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A three hour and fifty minute film set in a gray industrial mining city somewhere in Northeast China, Bo Hu’s first film (he died befor...

Denis's Trouble Every Day and the Wendigo Cycle, continued

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In the second brutal cannibal scene in the film, Shane confronts hotel maid Christelle in the hotel employee locker room to (the fil...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day, continued

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In Denis’s Trouble Every Day,  the metaphor of the land as woman is complicated in two ways: CorĂ© becomes both cannibal and cannibali...
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