1. Acknowledgements
2. Chapter 1. Environmental Ethics – Literature Review [Revised 2025 edition]
3. Chapter 2. Environmental Ethics and Ecocinema: Core Textual Readings
4. Chapter 3. From Gender Studies to Ecofeminism: Active Engagement in Science Fiction Fantasies
5. Chapter 4. An Environmental and Ethical Survey of Animals in Film: ‘The Canary in The Coalmine’!
6. Chapter 5. Ethics of Environmental Activism and Gauging Audience Responses
7. Chapter 6. Developing World Injustice, Environmental Sustainability: A Case Study of Postcolonial Films set in Africa.
8. Chapter 6. Concluding Remarks: Need for Radical Hope for the Future
9. Filmography
10. Index
Biography
Pat Brereton is emeritus professor of Communications at Dublin City University, Ireland.
"In our increasingly image-based age of communication, politics and culture, the role of film in interpreting and reimaging, challenging and reinforcing, ‘commonsense’ views of human-nature relations is much more than a study of entertainment and distraction. This new edition of Environmental Ethics and Film is an informed and authoritative guide to how and in what ways film can comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. And such intellectual and emotional disturbance is needed, as the book eloquently points out, if we are to respond with ‘radical hope’ to living on our increasingly destabilised planet".
- John Barry, Ollscoil na Banríona, Béal Feirste/Queen's University Belfast
"Professor Brereton clearly shows film’s contribution to environmental ethics. As someone trained in ethics, not filmography, his first edition helped me incorporate film into ethics teaching and scholarship. This second edition analyses many newer films and remains balanced. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in environmental ethics, which should include all of us."
-Dónal O'Mathúna, Professor, College of Nursing and Associate Director of Research, Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at The Ohio State University
