{"product_id":"ecotrauma-cinema-9781138548411","title":"EcoTrauma Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilm has taken a powerful position alongside the global environmental movement, from didactic documentaries to the fantasy pleasures of commercial franchises. This book investigates in particular film's complex role in representing ecological traumas. Eco-trauma cinema represents the harm we, as humans, inflict upon our natural surroundings, or the injuries we sustain from nature in its unforgiving iterations. The term encompasses both circumstances because these seemingly distinct instances of ecological harm are often related, and even symbiotic: the traumas we perpetuate in an ecosystem through pollution and unsustainable resource management inevitably return to harm us. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors to this volume engage with eco-trauma cinema in its three general forms: accounts of people who are traumatized by the natural world, narratives that represent people or social processes which traumatize the environment or its species, and stories that depict the aftermath of ecological catast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Eco-Trauma Cinema \u003ci\u003eAnil Narine \u003c\/i\u003e1. Evolution, Extinction and the Eco-trauma Film: \u003ci\u003eDarwin’s Nightmare\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and \u003ci\u003eA Zed \u0026amp; Two Naughts \u003c\/i\u003e(1986) \u003ci\u003eBarbara Creed \u003c\/i\u003e2. Trauma, Truth, and the Environmental Documentary \u003ci\u003eCharles Musser \u003c\/i\u003e3. Great Southern Wounds: The Trauma of Australian Cinema \u003ci\u003eMark Steven \u003c\/i\u003e4. Into the Wilde?: Art, Technologically-Mediated Kinship, and the Lethal Indifference of Nature in Werner Herzog’s \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Man\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlf Seegert \u003c\/i\u003e5. The Dangers of Bio-security: \u003ci\u003eThe Host \u003c\/i\u003e(2006)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the Geopolitics of Outbreak \u003ci\u003eHsuan L. Hsu \u003c\/i\u003e6. Biting Back: America, Nature and Feminism in \u003ci\u003eTeeth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRoland Finger \u003c\/i\u003e7. The Spirits of Globalization: Masochistic Ecologies in Fabrice du Welz’s \u003ci\u003eVinyan\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGeorgiana Banita \u003c\/i\u003e8. Love in the Times of Ecocide: Environmental Trauma and Comic Relief in Andrew Stanton’s \u003ci\u003eWALL-E\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlexa Weik von Mossner \u003c\/i\u003e9. Eavesdropping in \u003ci\u003eThe Cove\u003c\/i\u003e: Interspecies Ethics, Public and Private Space, and Trauma under Water \u003ci\u003eJanet Walker \u003c\/i\u003e10. Cooling the Geopolitical to Warm the Ecological: How Human-Induced Warming Phenomena Transformed Modern Horror \u003ci\u003eChristopher Justice \u003c\/i\u003e11. Toxic Media: On the Ecological Impact of Cinema \u003ci\u003eSean Cubitt \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019498717527,"sku":"9781138548411","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138548411.jpg?v=1750780449","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ecotrauma-cinema-9781138548411","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}