The book: BIOMOVIE

Cover by: Kitti Farkas

Annamária Hódosy: BIOMOVIE - Ecocriticism and Popular Film

The Book
Contents

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.

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 3. – THE TESTAMENT OF ECOLOGY

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.

Chapter 5. – GYNECOLOGY: FROM FEMINISM TOWARDS ECOFEMINISM

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.

Chapter 7. – WHISPERING WITH RAPTORS

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.

Chapter 2. – THE RHETORIC STRATEGIES OF BIOMOVIES

Elitist critics usually deem the films of Hollywood inappropriate to convey environmental messages.

Chapter 4. – THE MONSTROUS FEMININITY OF EARTH

Reproductive Nature appears as a feminine figure in almost all archaic myths, therefore women seem to be much closer to nature ontologically than men.

Chapter 6. – ECOPSYCHOSIS: ILLNESS AS ENVIRONMENTAL RESISTANCE

This Chapter analyzes films that associate certain mental ilnesses, depression, scyzophrenia with environmental disaster although in different ways and extent.

Chapter 8. – ENERGY TO THE SHIELDS!

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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