Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
1 Environmental crisis and epistemological crisis 2 Cinema spectatorship as an illusory Cartesian ‘symptom’ 3 Realist film as cogito-centric film 4 Surviving environmental disasters in film ‘lifeboats’ 5 Surviving environmental apocalypse in film ‘lifeboats’ 6 Survivors in post-apocalyptic environmental dystopias 7 The possibilities of non-Cartesian film Conclusion Ecocriticism Introduction
Description:
Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis argues that these films exploit cinema's inherent Cartesian grammar to construct texts in which not only small groups of protagonist survivors, but also vicarious spectators, pleasurably transcend the fictionalised destruction.