Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen

ISBN-13: 9781032250410 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 188 str.

Robin L. Murray; Joseph K. Heumann

Opis

This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues.

Recenzje

"Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann have a wonderful breadth of ecomedia knowledge, and this book addresses what scholars have been talking about as an important move in the field: humor in environmental studies. Murray and Heumann offer so many great recommendations here for those of us in ecomedia."

Bridgitte Barclay, Associate Professor of English and Environmental Studies, Aurora University, USA

Spis treści

Introduction: Defining Eco-Comedy  Part 1: Comic Genres and the Green World: Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral  1. The Green World and the Screwball Comedy: A Pastoral World of Play  2. Turning Romance Green: Anti- and Post-Pastoral Approaches to Love in Gendered Comedies  3. The Shape of Water (2017) and the Post-Pastoral Comic Mash-Up  Part 2: Laughter, Eco-Heroes, and Evolutionary Narratives of Consumption  4. The Dead Can’t Dance and Blood Quantum: Contrasting Indigenous Visions "Feeding" the Zombie Apocalypse  5. Turning Climate Crises into Climate Solutions in Woman at War (2018)  6. Housing, Labor, and Comic Evolutionary Narratives in Sorry to Bother You (2018)  7. Consuming Fast Fashion in The Man in the White Suit and In Fabric  Part 3: Environmental Nostalgia, Fuel, and the Carnivalesque  8. Nature Guarding "Her Treasures" in Oil Comedies: Local Hero (1983) Versus Fubar: Balls to the Wall (2010)  9. Disney and Pixar’s Cars Franchise: Comic Environmental Nostalgia Versus Simulacra  10. Conclusion: Eco-comedies in Context