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6 The Comic Eco-Hero
Spoofing Eco-Disaster in Eight Legged Freaks
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Robin L. Murray
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments xi
- Reading the Environment in Popular Cinema 1
- Ecology and Spectacle in Oil Wells of Baku: Close View 19
- Environmental Politics 37
- Reconstructing Underground Urban Space in Dark Days 57
- Ecology , Place, and Home in Dark City 73
- Environmental Nostalgia and The Tragic Eco-Hero 91
- The Comic Eco-Hero 109
- Eco-Terrorism in Film 127
- Car Culture and the Transformation of the American Landscape in The Fast and the Furious 143
- Film Ecology 165
- Apocalypse as a “Return to Normality” in 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later 181
- Al Gore ’s An Inconvenient Truth and its Skeptics: A Case of Environmental Nostalgia 195
- Filmography 207
- Works Cited 215
- Index 223
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments xi
- Reading the Environment in Popular Cinema 1
- Ecology and Spectacle in Oil Wells of Baku: Close View 19
- Environmental Politics 37
- Reconstructing Underground Urban Space in Dark Days 57
- Ecology , Place, and Home in Dark City 73
- Environmental Nostalgia and The Tragic Eco-Hero 91
- The Comic Eco-Hero 109
- Eco-Terrorism in Film 127
- Car Culture and the Transformation of the American Landscape in The Fast and the Furious 143
- Film Ecology 165
- Apocalypse as a “Return to Normality” in 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later 181
- Al Gore ’s An Inconvenient Truth and its Skeptics: A Case of Environmental Nostalgia 195
- Filmography 207
- Works Cited 215
- Index 223
