Film Ecology: Defending the Biosphere -- Doughnut Economics and Film Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781032172972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 124 str.

Susan Hayward

Opis

Using the Regenerative economic model - also known as Doughnut Economics - Susan Hayward offers a thought-provoking sketch for a renewed, tentatively revolutionary, approach to both film theory and film practice.

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter One: Film and ecology, Doughnut Economics, and film theory

Chapter Two: Film and the Anthropocene: dirty Capitalism – Mildred Pierce (1945), Tulsa (1949), and Giant (1956)

Chapter Three: Where we are now and where we need to be: from Source and Sink to Take->Make->Use->Re-use –  Erin Brockovich (2000), Wall Street (1987), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Chapter Four: A moral imperative to REVOLT: Hotel Rwanda (2004) and Caphernaüm (2018)

O autorze

Susan Hayward is Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies at Exeter University. She is the author of numerous books on French Cinema and Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (now in its fifth edition).