{"product_id":"ecological-film-theory-and-psychoanalysis-robert-geal-9780367373412","title":"Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings against the dangers of environmental apocalypse, while highlighting that even these apparently environmentally friendly films can still facilitate problematic real-world changes in how people treat the environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e argues that these films exploit cinema's inherent Cartesian grammar to construct texts in which not only small groups of protagonist survivors, but also vicarious spectators, pleasurably transcend the fictionalised destruction. The ideological nature of the 'lifeboats' on which these survivors escape, moreover, is accompanied by additional elements that constitute contemporary Cartesian subjectivity, such as class and gender binaries, restored nuclear families, individual as opposed to social responsibilities for disasters, and so on. The book conducts extensive analyses of these processes, before considering alternative forms of filmmaking that might avoid the dangers of this existing form of storytelling. The book's new ecosophy and film theory establishes that Cartesian subjectivity is an environmentally destructive 'symptom' that everyday linguistic activities like watching films reinforce. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of great interest to students and scholars of film studies, literary studies (specifically ecocriticism), cultural studies, ecolinguistics, and ecosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Geal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367373416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367373412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Robert Geal","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136003420415,"sku":"9780367373412","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5e0fea8-1cbb-4b48-b3da-14343cdaede0.jpg?v=1770159866","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ecological-film-theory-and-psychoanalysis-robert-geal-9780367373412","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}