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Landscape and the Environment in Hollywood Film: The Green Machine

Landscape and the Environment in Hollywood Film: The Green Machine

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication

Environmental StudiesFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3319859080
ISBN13: 9783319859088
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 23 2018
Pages: 275
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book systematically explores how popular Hollywood film portrays environmental issues through various genres. In so doing, it reveals the influence exerted by media consolidation and the drive for profit on Hollywood's portrayal of the natural landscape, which ultimately shapes how environmental problems and their solutions are presented to audiences. Analysis is framed by a consideration of how cultural studies can make more theoretical and practical room for environmental concern, thereby expanding its capacity for critical examination. The book begins by introducing the theoretical underpinning of the research as it relates to cultural studies, landscape, and genre. In the chapters that follow, each genre is taken in turn, starting with popular animated family films and progressing through spy thrillers, eco-thrillers, science fiction, Westerns, superhero films, and drama. This book is ideal for students and scholars in a variety of disciplines, including film, environmentalstudies, communication, political economy, and cultural studies.

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