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Film Ecology: Defending the Biosphere - Doughnut Economics and Theory Practice

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Film Ecology: Defending the Biosphere - Doughnut Economics and Theory Practice
Film Ecology: Defending the Biosphere - Doughnut Economics and Theory Practice

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Film Ecology: Defending the Biosphere - Doughnut Economics and Theory Practice

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Using the Regenerative economic model – also known as Doughnut Economics – Susan Hayward offers a thought-provoking sketch for a renewed, tentatively revolutionary approach to both film theory and film practice.
This book attempts to answer the questions posed by T.J. Demos (in A
gainst the Anthropocene
, 2017): how do we find a way to address planetary harm and the issues it raises within the field of Film Studies? How do we construct a theoretical model that allows us to visualize the ecological transgressions brought about by the growth-model of capitalism which is heavily endorsed by mainstream narrative cinema? By turning to the model set out in Kate Raworth’s book
Doughnut Economics
(2017) and adapting its fundamental principles to a study of narrative cinema,
Film Ecology
proposes to show how, by using this model, we can usefully plot and investigate films according to criteria that are not genre/star/auteur-led, nor indeed embedded in anthropocentric theoretical models, but principles which are ecologically based. These arguments are brought to life with examples from mainstream narrative films such as
The Giant
(1956),
Mildred Pierce
(1945),
Erin Brockovich
(2000),
Wall Street
(1987),
Hotel Rwanda
(2004), and
Missing Figures
(2016).
This approach will inspire film practitioners, film theorists, critics and analysts, film students and film lovers alike to consider how they might integrate this Doughnut model into their thinking or work as part of their process.

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