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BL
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634885
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Murray, Robin L
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| Title & Author
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Ecology and popular film : : cinema on the edge /\ Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: SUNY Press,, c2009
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| Series Statement
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SUNY series, horizons of cinema
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xi, 228 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780791476772 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0791476774 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 9780791476789 (pbk: alk. paper)
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: 0791476782 (pbk: alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-221) and index
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Includes filmography: p. 207-213
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| Contents
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Introduction : Reading the environment in popular culture -- Ecology and spectacle in Oil wells of Baku: close view : the first eco-disaster film? -- Environmental politics: Pare Lorentz's The river and the Tennessee Valley Authority -- Reconstructing underground urban space in Dark days -- Ecology, place, and home in Dark city: is it our nature to live in the dark? -- Environmental nostalgia and the tragic eco-hero: the case of Soylent green and the 1970s eco-disaster film -- The comic eco-hero: spoofing eco-disaster in Eight legged freaks -- Eco-terrorism in film: Pale rider and the revenge cycle -- Car culture and the transformation of the American landscape in The fast and the furious -- Film ecology: simulated construction and destruction in Hooper -- Apocalypse as a "return to normality" in 28 days later and 28 weeks later -- Conclusion : Al Gore's An inconvenient truth and its skeptics: a case of environmental nostalgia
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Nature in motion pictures
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Ecology in motion pictures
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/66
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PN1995.9.N38M87 2009
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Heumann, Joseph K
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