Chapter 1. - INTRODUCTION
The book Biomovie. Ecocriticism and Popular Film introduces the Reader to the ecocritical approach of popular, mostly 21th century Hollywood films.
Chapter 2. - THE RHETORIC STRATEGIES OF BIOMOVIES
Diverse cases: Big Miracle, Moana and The 5th Wave Abstract Download full Chapter at the bottom of the page EElitist...
Chapter 3. - THE TESTAMENT OF ECOLOGY
The Ecocriticism of the Myth of Fall in Aronofsky’s Noah és Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive Abstract The two movies...
Chapter 4. - THE MONSTROUS FEMININITY OF EARTH
Filmic representations of the interconnections of ’woman’ and ’nature’ in Forces of Nature, Armageddon, The Vicker Man, Under the Dome and Avatar.
Chapter 5. - GYNECOLOGY: FROM FEMINISM TOWARDS ECOFEMINISM
The chapter analyses PETA advertisement strategies and two films that associate the treatment of animals and animal experiments with the scientific and mainstream cultural concept of women in the Western World.
Chapter 6. - ECOPSYCHOSIS: ILLNESS AS ENVIRONMENTAL RESISTANCE
his Chapter analyzes films that associate certain mental ilnesses, depression, scyzophrenia with environmental disaster although in different ways and extent.
Chapter 7. - WHISPERING WITH RAPTORS
There have benne serious changes in the treatment of animals in the last couple of years.
Chapter 8. - ENERGY TO THE SHIELDS!
The threat of ecological crisis and the theme of environmental problems appears in more and more science fiction films around the millennia, often interconnected with the theme of peak oil.
What is ecocriticism?
No, it is not a term for the rationalized expression of our revulsion for ecology. Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between cultural products and the environment, which became an academic discipline only in the 1990s.
The author: Annamária Hódosy PhD.
Dr. Annamária Hódosy – Senior Associate Professor – University of Szeged – Faculty of Arts, Department of Visual Culture and Literary Theory
