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- An active and compelling scholarly effort to carve out a clear space for environmental concern in cultural studies
- Examination of the intersection of the environment and media remains an understudied area to date, and while this book engages with similar topics and themes in previously-published work, currently there is no existing scholarship that uses genre as a systematic, comparative method and theoretical frame to examine filmic portrayals of the environment
- Offers a fresh and updated academic work on Hollywood’s portrayal of contemporary environmental issues by including many recent Hollywood texts (including global blockbusters like Disney’s Frozen)
- Firmly located within a cultural studies perspective, Moore’s examination reveals that Hollywood consistently flattens environmental messages in order to quell viewers’ concerns, encouraging inaction instead of action – a trend that is both unsurprising given the profit-driven nature of conglomerates and also striking given the increasingly dire environmental news around the globe
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication (PSMEC)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, USA
Ellen E. Moore
About the author
Ellen Moore is a Senior Lecturer at University of Washington Tacoma. She conducts research on racial representations in Hollywood and news media coverage of environmental justice. She lives in Tacoma, Washington with her family and two St Bernards.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Landscape and the Environment in Hollywood Film
Book Subtitle: The Green Machine
Authors: Ellen E. Moore
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56411-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56410-4Published: 20 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85908-8Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-56411-1Published: 09 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6451
Series E-ISSN: 2634-646X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 275
Topics: American Culture, Media and Communication, Film Theory, Social Media, Cultural Theory, Ecology