Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment

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

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

American Mary and Body Modification: Nature and the Art of Change

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At a turning point in the contemporary feminist “Frankenstein” film American Mary , Ruby (Paula Lindberg)—one of Mary’s future body modifica...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Revising the Gendered Cannibal

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Blood Diner , Jennifer’s Body , and to a certain extent, Trouble Every Day may construct women as monsters rather than victims, especially,...

Columbus and Other Cannibals

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Scholars in the humanities concur with arguments from the sciences regarding the cannibal. According to linguist Ellen B. Basso’s study of S...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Interdisciplinary Views of the Cannibal

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Many scientists agree with Travis-Henikoff’s premise in Dinner with a Cannibal . In a Science News article, for example, Bruce Bower highlig...

Constructing the Cannibal

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The May 2013 unearthing of what Nicholas Wade of The New York Times calls “the first physical evidence of cannibalism among the desperate po...
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...
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