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Film, Environment, Comedy : Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen by Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that reveals the evolution of both eco-comedy films and theoretical approaches, this book project aims to fill a gap in ecocinema scholarship. It does so by exploring three sections arranged to highlight the breadth of eco-comedy: I. Comic Genres and the Green World: Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral Visions; II. Laughter, Eco-Heroes, and Evolutionary Narratives of Consumption; and III. Environmental Nostalgia, Fuel, and the Carnivalesque. Examining everything from Hollywood classics, Oscar winners, animation to independent and international films, Murray and Heumann exemplify how the use of comedy can expose and amplify environmental issues to a wider audience than more traditional ecocinema genres and can help provide a path towards positive action and change. Ideal for students and scholars of film studies, ecocriticism, and environmental studies, especially those with a particular i

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Author

Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781003282136

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sports, Literary Fiction