Anecdotal Evidence
Ecocritiqe from Hollywood to the Mass Image
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 20 February 2020
- ISBN 9780190065720
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 155x234x22 mm
- Weight 516 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 screen stills; 2 illus. 39
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Short description:
Anecdotal Evidence reveals the deep intertwining of history and ecology in culture, extending to the infrastructure of streaming video media and mass image databases. An original take on Anthropocene anxieties and technological paranoia, the book proposes that the digital humanities still need the traditional skills of close reading to understand our contemporary condition.
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Ecocritique is a practice of radical questioning, as essential to the critical armoury as feminism and postcolonialism have become. Like them, it extends beyond judgements about texts with clear ecological themes, demonstrating the significance of ecocriticism for any advanced understanding of cultural forms. Anecdotal method is ecocritical because it focuses on encounters, concentrated moments of crisis when social ordering and ecological forces clash. The anecdote's power to produce events, meanings and history forms a methodological entry to aesthetic politics. Anecdotal Evidence provides an outline of the need for and principles of anecdotal method; a case study of eco-critical themes in Hollywood films shaped by the Global Financial Crisis; and a confrontation with mass image databases of social and streaming media that due to their scale and organisation appear at first immune to anecdotal method. Only because the environment has a history is it possible to intervene environmentally. Because we continually misrecognise the historical production of environments, the first task of ecocritique is to bring our formative concept of ecology into crisis. Its final task will be to achieve the good life for everything connected by the historical implication of humans in ecology, and ecology in humans. No politics can be undertaken in our times except through media: ecocritical humanities have a key role in rethinking ecopolitics in the 21st century.
Anecdotal Evidence offers an impressive, insightful, and unquestionably inspiring set of film critiques that convincingly demonstrates the ecocritical potential of the concept of the anecdote.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Section 1: Ecocritique and Anecdote
Section 2: Ecocritique, Popular Cinema, and the Global Financial Crisis
2.1 Rango and appearance
2.2 A Glitch in time: Déj? Vu
2.3 Becoming human: Iron Man 2
2.4 Otherwise than human: Oblivion
2.5 The Non-identical world: Source Code
2.6 Those Dying Generations: No Country for Old Men
2.7 Hope in Children of Men and Serenity
2.8 Posthumous Media: The Voyager Animations
Section 3: Ecocritique, Anecdote, and the Mass Image
Part 1: Making the Mass Image
Part 2: Remaking the Mass Image
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