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02727aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 8982ED8E840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 171224s2018 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780190696771 020 $a 019069677X 020 $a 0190696788 020 $a 9780190696788 035 $a (OCoLC)1016935065 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d COO $d NYP $d EYM $d STF $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d SILO 050 4 $a PN1995.9.N38 $b F39 2018 082 04 $a 791.43/66 $2 23 100 1 $a Fay, Jennifer, $e author. 245 10 $a Inhospitable world : $b cinema in the time of the Anthropocene / $c Jennifer Fay. 264 1 $a Oxford : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xi, 253 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index. 520 $a "In recent years, environmental and human rights advocates have suggested that we have entered the first new geological epoch since the end of the ice age: the Anthropocene. In this new epoch, humans have come to reshape both the climate and natural world; humankind has caused mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted the oceans, and irreversibly altered the atmosphere. While standard ecological criticism attends to the environmental crisis as an unraveling of our natural state, this book looks to film to consider how it reflects upon the creation and destruction of human environments. What are the implications of ecological inhospitality? What role might cinema and media theory play in challenging our presumed right to occupy and populate the world? As an art form, film enjoys a unique relationship to the material, elemental world it captures and produces. Through it, we may appreciate the ambitions to design an unhomely planet that may no longer accommodate us"--Page [4] of cover. 650 0 $a Nature in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Geology, Stratigraphic $y Anthropocene. 650 0 $a Environmentalism in motion pictures. 650 0 $a Ecology in motion pictures. 650 7 $a Film $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4017102-4 650 7 $a OÌkologie $g Motiv $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4338257-5 650 7 $a Natur $g Motiv $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4115346-7 650 7 $a Umweltschaden $g Motiv $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4197237-5 650 7 $a Ecology in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01903085 650 7 $a Environmentalism in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01903141 650 7 $a Geology, Stratigraphic. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00940727 650 7 $a Nature in motion pictures. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034682 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019015914.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200303020428.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8982ED8E840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search