Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment
This blog explores popular film and media and their relationship to the environment.
Thursday, November 25, 2021
A Civil Action (1998) and Water Rights
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Ultimately, in A Civil Action Attorney Jan Schlichtmann (John Travolta) and his law firm settle with both Grace and Beatrice, but Schl...
Thursday, November 18, 2021
Water Rights and Film: A Civil Action (1998)
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In A Civil Action (1998), the “reasonable use” of water is under question. The film explores whether or not those who used the same wat...
Thursday, November 11, 2021
U.S. Feature Films and the Riparian Doctrine
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Water has been considered a natural right around in the world and treated as a usufructuary right for thousands of years. Such a right g...
Water Rights and Genre Film
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Water rights also connect explicitly with human approaches to ecology that not only draw on riparian rights and the appropriative doctrin...
Monday, October 25, 2021
Water Rights and Chinatown, Continued
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Water rights are steeped in environmental history in films with water at their center. Chinatown explicitly highlights the continuing infl...
Water in the Desert: Chinatown (1974) and California's Continuing Drought
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The current drought in California broaches multiple multiple perspectives on water rights. But these responses rest on a cultural and legal ...
Water as Protagonist
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Water rights also connect explicitly with human approaches to ecology that not only draw on riparian rights and the appropriative doctrine, ...
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