Annamária Hódosy: BIOMOVIE - Ecocriticism and Popular Film
Tiszatáj könyvek - Szeged - 2018.
The volume was supported by:
National Cultural Fund (NKA) - Hungary
Published by the Tiszatáj Foundation
Edited by Ákos Tóth
Cover graphics: Kitti Farkas
© Annamária Hódosy, 2018.
Tiszatáj Foundation
Felelős kiadó: Róbert Hász
Kötetterv: Gábor Annus
Printing: E-press Nyomdaipari Ltd.
Felelős vezető: Gábor Engi
ISBN 978-615-5618-20-8
ISSN 1417 314 X
Preface |
7 |
Introduction |
13 |
The Rhetoric Strategies of Biomovies |
55 |
The Testament of Ecology |
103 |
The Monstrous Femininity of Earth |
139 |
Gynecology: from Feminism to Ecofeminism |
187 |
Ecopsychosis: Illness as Environmental Resistance |
235 |
Whispering with Raptors. Punish and Discipline in the "New Scool" of Animal Training |
281 |
Energy to the Shields! |
321 |
Bibliography |
375 |
Filmography |
401 |
Index |
405 |
- Detailed description of the book -
In the following you can read a summary and some citations from each Chapter of the book, from which you can see what it is about.
The book Biomovie. Ecocriticism and Popular Film introduces the Reader to the ecocritical approach of popular, mostly 21th century Hollywood films.
Read more...The films referred in the title are from many respects incomparable, notwithstanding they are similar in trying to represent existential problems that arise from the incompatibility of modern life with the order of nature through unusual themes.
Read more...The chapter analyzes PETA advertisement strategies and two films that associates the treatment of animals and animal experiments with the scientific and mainstream cultural concept of women in the West World.
Read more...There have benne serious changes int he treatment of animals in the last some years. It is not only Animal Rights activists who achieved great progress but the methods of animal training also tranformed.
Read more...Elitist critics usually deem the films of Hollywood inappropriate to convey environmental messages.
Read more...Reproductive Nature appears as a feminine figure in almost all archaic myths, therefore women seem to be much closer to nature ontologically than men.
Read more...This Chapter analyzes films that associate certain mental ilnesses, depression, scyzophrenia with environmental disaster although in different ways and extent.
Read more...The threat of the ecological crisis and the theme of environmental problems appears in more and more science fiction films around the turn of the third millennium, often interconnected with the theme of peak oil.
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