1st Edition
Film Ecology Defending the Biosphere — Doughnut Economics and Film Theory and Practice
By Susan Hayward
Copyright 2020
124 Pages
15 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
124 Pages
15 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
124 Pages
15 Color Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Using the Regenerative economic model – also known as Doughnut Economics – Susan Hayward offers a thought-provoking sketch for a renewed, tentatively revolutionary approach to both film theory and film practice. This book attempts to answer the questions posed by T.J. Demos (in A gainst the Anthropocene , 2017): how do we find a way to address planetary harm and the issues it raises... Read more
Introduction
Chapter One: Film and ecology, Doughnut Economics, and film theory
Chapter Two: Film and the Anthropocene: dirty Capitalism – Mildred Pierce (1945), Tulsa (1949), and Giant (1956)
Chapter Three: Where we are now and where we need to be: from Source and Sink to Take->Make->Use->Re-use – Erin Brockovich (2000), Wall Street (1987), and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Chapter Four: A moral imperative to REVOLT: Hotel Rwanda (2004) and Caphernaüm (2018)
Biography
Susan Hayward is Emeritus Professor of Cinema Studies at Exeter University. She is the author of numerous books on French Cinema and Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (now in its fifth edition).
