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Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen

Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen

Murray, Robin L.
Heumann, Joseph K.

Paperback

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032252162
ISBN13: 9781032252162
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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, and 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.

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