Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and
food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem
nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual
tensions between human needs and the environmental impact these
needs produce. Contemporary documentaries and feature films explore
environmental-human conflicts by depicting the consequences of our
overconsumption and dependence on nonrenewable energy. Film and
Everyday Eco-disasters examines changing perspectives toward
everyday eco-disasters as reflected in the work of filmmakers from
the silent era forward, with an emphasis on recent films such as
Dead Ahead, an HBO dramatization of the Exxon Valdez disaster;
Total Recall, a science fiction action film highlighting oxygen as
a commodity; The Devil Wears Prada, a comment on the fashion
industry; and Food, Inc., a documentary interrogation of the food
industry. The authors evaluate not only the success of these films
as rhetorical arguments but also their rhetorical strategies. This
interdisciplinary approach to film studies fuses cultural,
economic, and literary critiques in articulating an approach to
ecology that points to sustainable development as an alternative to
resource exploitations and their associated everyday eco-disasters.
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