Thursday, May 27, 2021

Solutions in Rupert Murray's The End of the Line documentary

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  The End of the Line  offers a variety of solutions to this catastrophic future of our seas, all of which are based in organismic approache...

The Rhetoric of The End of the Line documentary

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  For us, The End of the Line effectively illustrates the consequences of industrialized fishing and consumerism. Despite its flaws, then,...

Universalizing the Biotic Community in The End of the Line

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    Darwin’s Nightmare  focuses on one example of species manipulation and human oppression.  The End of the Line  argues more generally for...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Overfishing and the Biotic Community

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Although they elucidate disparate issues surrounding our hunt for seafood, both The End of the Line and Darwin’s Nightmare draw on the bio...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Of Bacon and Animals---National Film Board of Canada Film Documentaries, continued

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  Some industrial practices are constructed as cruel in Hugo Latulippe’s  Bacon: The Film  through scenes of distressed piglets, which becom...

National Film Board of Canada Food Documentaries: A Synthetic Approach, Part I

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  Nostalgic reminiscences serve a central role in a series of National Film Board of Canada documentaries. Beef, Inc., Bacon: The Film, and...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

We Feed the World: Documentary as Veiled Nostalgia part 2

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  We Feed The World  juxtaposes industrial and traditional farming techniques in ways similar to those used to critique industrial fishing w...