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Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis - Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,476
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Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis - Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema (Hardcover): Robert Geal

Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis - Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema (Hardcover)

Robert Geal

Series: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media

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This book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while highlighting that even these apparently environmentally friendly films can still facilitate problematic real-world changes in how people treat the environment. Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis argues that these films exploit cinema's inherent Cartesian grammar to construct texts in which not only small groups of protagonist survivors, but also vicarious spectators, pleasurably transcend the fictionalised destruction. The ideological nature of the 'lifeboats' on which these survivors escape, moreover, is accompanied by additional elements that constitute contemporary Cartesian subjectivity, such as class and gender binaries, restored nuclear families, individual as opposed to social responsibilities for disasters, and so on. The book conducts extensive analyses of these processes, before considering alternative forms of filmmaking that might avoid the dangers of this existing form of storytelling. The book's new ecosophy and film theory establishes that Cartesian subjectivity is an environmentally destructive 'symptom' that everyday linguistic activities like watching films reinforce. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of film studies, literary studies (specifically ecocriticism), cultural studies, ecolinguistics, and ecosophy.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
Release date: July 2021
First published: 2021
Authors: Robert Geal
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-37341-2
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Electronic & video art
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LSN: 0-367-37341-6
Barcode: 9780367373412

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