Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Reading the Environment in Popular Cinema 1
6. Ecology and Spectacle in Oil Wells of Baku: Close View 19
7. Environmental Politics 37
8. Reconstructing Underground Urban Space in Dark Days 57
9. Ecology , Place, and Home in Dark City 73
10. Environmental Nostalgia and The Tragic Eco-Hero 91
11. The Comic Eco-Hero 109
12. Eco-Terrorism in Film 127
13. Car Culture and the Transformation of the American Landscape in The Fast and the Furious 143
14. Film Ecology 165
15. Apocalypse as a “Return to Normality” in 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later 181
16. Al Gore ’s An Inconvenient Truth and its Skeptics: A Case of Environmental Nostalgia 195
17. Filmography 207
18. Works Cited 215
19. Index 223