Eco Media
Jan 2005 · Rodopi
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For the last twenty years ecology, the last great political movement of the 20th century, has fired the imaginations not only of political activists but of popular movements throughout the industrialised world. EcoMediais an enquiry into the popular mediations of environmental concerns in popular film and television since the 1980s. Arranged in a series of case studies on bio-security, relationships with animals, bioethics and biological sciences, over-fishing, eco-terrorism, genetic modification and global warming, EcoMediaoffers close readings of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, Miyazake's Princess Mononoke, The Perfect Storm, X-Menand X2, The Day After Tomorrowand the BBC's drama Edge of Darknessand documentary The Blue Planet. Drawing on the thinking of Flusser, Luhmann, Latour, Agamben and Bookchin, EcoMediadiscusses issues from whether animals can draw and why we like to draw animals, to how narrative films can imagine global processes, and whether wonder is still an ethical pleasure. Building on the thesis that popular film and television can tell us a great deal about the state of contemporary beliefs and anxieties, the book builds towards an argument that the polis, the human world, cannot survive without a three way partnership with physisand techne, the green world andthe technological.
About the author
Sean Cubitt is Professor of Screen and Media Studies at the University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of Timeshift: On Video Culture, Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture, Digital Aesthetics, Simulation and Social Theory, and The Cinema Effectand co-editor of Aliens R Us: Postcolonial Science Fictions(with Ziauddin Sardar), Against the Grain: The Third Text Reader on Art, Media and Culture(with Rasheed Araeen and Ziauddin Sardar) and How to Study the Event Movie: The Lord of the Rings - A Case Study(with Thierry Jutel, Barry King and Harriet Margolis)
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