Green Screen
Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema
Distributed for University of Exeter Press
“[Ingram’s] filmography in Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema contains more than 150 Hollywood movies from the 1890s to the 1990s “in which an environmental issue is raised explicitly and is central to the narrative”. He manages to analyze almost half of these in a dozen short chapters organized around three central themes: the wilderness, wild animals, and the politics of land use including the impacts of the automobile and nuclear power. This book will be valuable to anyone interested in politics and popular culture, American movies, and environmentalist debates on the meaning of nature.”
Preface
1. Discourses of Nature and Environmentalism
2. The Cinematography of Wilderness Landscapes
3. Gender and Encounters with Wilderness
4. Ecological Indians and the Myth of Primal Purity
5. Politics of the Amazonian Rain Forests
II: Wild Animals in Hollywood Cinema
Introduction
6. North American Anti-Hunting Narratives
7. North American Ocean Fauna
8. Wolves and Bears
9. African Wildlife from Safari to Conservation
III: Development and the Politics of Land Use
Introduction
10. Country and City
11. The Ecology of Automobile Culture
12. The Risks of Nuclear Power
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
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