The essays in this collection make a contribution to the greening of film studies and
expand the scope of ecocriticism as a discipline traditionally rooted in literary studies. In
addition to highlighting particular films as productive tools for raising awareness and educating us
about environmental issues, Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and
Film encourages its readers to become more ecologically minded viewers, sensitive to the
ways in which films reflect, shape, reinforce, and challenge our perceptions of nature, of
human/nature relations, and of environmental issues. The contributors to this volume offer
in-depth analyses of a broad range of films, including fictional and documentary, Hollywood and
independent, domestic and foreign, experimental and indigenous. Drawing from disciplines including
film theory, ecocriticism, philosophy, rhetoric, environmental justice, and American and Indigenous
studies, Framing the World offers new and original approaches to the ecocritical study of cinema.
The twelve essays are gathered in four parts, focusing on ecocinema as activist cinema; the
representation of environmental justice issues in Hollywood, independent, and foreign films; the
representation of animals, ecosystems, and natural and human-made landscapes in live action and
animation; and ecological themes in the films of two eco-auteurs, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Peter
Greenaway. Willoquet-Maricondi's introduction provides an overview of the field of
ecocriticism and offers both philosophical and theoretical foundations for the ecocritical study of
films.ContributorsBeth Berila, St. Cloud State University *
Lynne Dickson Bruckner, Chatham College * Elizabeth Henry, University of Denver * Joseph K.
Heumann, Eastern Illinois University * Harri Kilpi, University of East Anglia * Jennifer
Machiorlatti, Western Michigan University * Mark Minster, Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology * Robin L. Murray, Eastern Illinois University * Tim Palmer, University of North
Carolina, Wilmington * Cory Shaman, Arkansas Tech University * Rachel Stein, Siena College
* Paula Willoquet-Maricondi, Marist College
Copyright:
2010
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ISBN-13:
9780813930664
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9780813930053
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press
Date of Addition:
05/07/13
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the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia