Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema

ISBN-13: 9780367373412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 288 str.

Robert Geal

Opis

Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis argues that these films exploit cinema’s inherent Cartesian grammar to construct texts in which not only small groups of protagonist survivors, but also vicarious spectators, pleasurably transcend the fictionalised destruction.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Environmental crisis and epistemological crisis: Ecologically-destructive Cartesian subjectivity  2. Cinema spectatorship as an illusory Cartesian ‘symptom’  3. Realist film as cogito-centric film  4. Surviving environmental disasters in film ‘lifeboats’  5. Surviving environmental apocalypse in film ‘lifeboats’  6. Survivors in post-apocalyptic environmental dystopias  7. The possibilities of non-Cartesian film  Conclusion

O autorze

Robert Geal is a Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, where he teaches classes on film spectacle, representation, adaptation, psychoanalysis and Japanese cinema. He is the author of the monograph Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation, as well as numerous articles and chapters on topics including science fiction spectacle, sexuality and gender in animation, race in television comedy, adaptation studies and film theory.