Transactions with the World

Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood

AvAdam O’Brien

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood” films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-02-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:481 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781785330001

Utforska kategorier

Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Adam O’Brien teaches film studies at the universities of Bristol and Reading. He has published articles on ecocriticism and film in a number of journals, including Film Criticism, Journal of Media Practice, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

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“This valuable work engages fully with the field of cinema studies and demonstrates ways of building on traditional film theory from an ecocritical perspective. The author speaks the language of film aesthetics, provides sophisticated analyses that go beyond cursory readings of plot and narrative, and directly engages with film technology and its impact on textual meaning.” · Stephen A. Rust, University of Oregon“This is a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of ecocinema. The analyses of individual films are all expertly positioned within the existing literature, and O’Brien makes a convincing case for rethinking New Hollywood, as a mode of production and a cultural moment, from an ecocritical perspective.” · Pietari Kääpä, University of Stirling

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsPrologue: A Typical Love SceneIntroductionChapter 1. Four Faces of New HollywoodChapter 2. Resisting AbstractionChapter 3. Rooting In and Lighting Out: New Hollywood and GenreChapter 4. Regional FramesChapter 5. Conditions, Technologies and PresenceConclusion: Coming to Terms with Mr. MeekBibliographyIndex