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Film, Environment, Comedy - Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen (Hardcover)
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Film, Environment, Comedy - Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
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This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help
connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental
concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore
the complex ways environmental comedies present their
eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that reveals the
evolution of both eco-comedy films and theoretical approaches, this
book project aims to fill a gap in ecocinema scholarship. It does
so by exploring three sections arranged to highlight the breadth of
eco-comedy: I. Comic Genres and the Green World: Pastoral,
Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral Visions; II. Laughter, Eco-Heroes,
and Evolutionary Narratives of Consumption; and III. Environmental
Nostalgia, Fuel, and the Carnivalesque. Examining everything from
Hollywood classics, Oscar winners, and animation to independent and
international films, Murray and Heumann exemplify how the use of
comedy can expose and amplify environmental issues to a wider
audience than more traditional ecocinema genres and can help
provide a path towards positive action and change. Ideal for
students and scholars of film studies, ecocriticism, and
environmental studies, especially those with a particular interest
in ecocinema and/or ecocritical readings of popular films.
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