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Eco media / Sean Cubitt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary cinema ; 1.Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9042018852
  • 9789042018853
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.N38 C8 2005
Contents:
1. Introduction - secular virtues -- 2. Mediating Middle Earth : talking to trees in The lord of the rings -- 3. Drawing animals : zoomorphism in Princess Mononoke -- 4. The blue planet : virtual nature and natural virtue -- 5. Ecology as destiny : The perfect storm and Whale rider -- 6. Edge of darkness : eco-terrorism and the public sphere -- 7. Are we not men? X-men, X-2 and GM apologetics -- 8. Always take the weather : green media in global context -- 9. Conclusions : biopolitics and ecommuncation.
Review: "EcoMeida sets out to understand the ways ecological concerns are mediated through popular film and television. In case studies of Japanese animation, wildlife documentary, TV drama and Hollywood and art house cinema, Sean Cubitt traces the conflicted working of the popular imagination of global warming, eco-terrorism, bio-security, genetic modification, environmental ethics and our fraught relationships with animals. Drawing on the work of Habermas, Flusser, Luhmann and Latour among many others, Cubitt argues that, far from distorting the truth or closing down relationship between us and our environments, the technological media are integral to communication between humans and the green world."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-157) and index.

1. Introduction - secular virtues -- 2. Mediating Middle Earth : talking to trees in The lord of the rings -- 3. Drawing animals : zoomorphism in Princess Mononoke -- 4. The blue planet : virtual nature and natural virtue -- 5. Ecology as destiny : The perfect storm and Whale rider -- 6. Edge of darkness : eco-terrorism and the public sphere -- 7. Are we not men? X-men, X-2 and GM apologetics -- 8. Always take the weather : green media in global context -- 9. Conclusions : biopolitics and ecommuncation.

"EcoMeida sets out to understand the ways ecological concerns are mediated through popular film and television. In case studies of Japanese animation, wildlife documentary, TV drama and Hollywood and art house cinema, Sean Cubitt traces the conflicted working of the popular imagination of global warming, eco-terrorism, bio-security, genetic modification, environmental ethics and our fraught relationships with animals. Drawing on the work of Habermas, Flusser, Luhmann and Latour among many others, Cubitt argues that, far from distorting the truth or closing down relationship between us and our environments, the technological media are integral to communication between humans and the green world."--BOOK JACKET.

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