Green Screen

Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-85989-609-2
Verlag: University of Exeter Press

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 357 g

This book combines film studies with environmental history and politics, aiming to establish a cultural criticism informed by 'green' thought. David Ingram argues that Hollywood cinema has largely perpetuated romantic attitudes to nature and has played an important ideological role in the 'greenwashing' of ecological discourses.


The book accounts for the rise of environmental concerns in Hollywood cinema, and explores the ways in which attitudes to nature and the environment are constructed in a number of movies. It is divided into three sections: Wilderness in Hollywood Cinema; Wild Animals in Hollywood Cinema; Development and the Politics of Land Use.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ingram, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction - melodrama and environmental crisis. Part 1 Wilderness in Hollywood cinema: discourses of nature and environmentalism; the cinematography of natural landscapes; gender and the encounter with wilderness; ecological Indians and the myth of primal purity; gender, race and the politics of the Amazonian rain forests. Part 2 Wild animals in Hollywood cinema: endangered species and the North American anti-hunting narrative; North American ocean mammals; the wolf and the bear; African animals from safari to conservation. Part 3 Development and the politics of land use: the country and the city; automobile culture; the risks of nuclear energy. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

David Ingram is a lecturer in American Studies at Brunel University.