Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen

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Robin L. Murray (Eastern Illinois University, USA) Joseph K. Heumann (Eastern Illinois University, USA)

Film, Environment, Comedy

Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen

Robin L. Murray (Eastern Illinois University, USA), Joseph K. Heumann (Eastern Illinois University, USA)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Films, movies & cinema; Media studies

Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues.

This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that reveals the evolution of both eco-comedy films and theoretical approaches, this book project aims to fill a gap in ecocinema scholarship. It does so by exploring three sections arranged to highlight the breadth of eco-comedy: I. Comic Genres and the Green World: Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral Visions; II. Laughter, Eco-Heroes, and Evolutionary Narratives of Consumption; and III. Environmental Nostalgia, Fuel, and the Carnivalesque. Examining everything from Hollywood classics, Oscar winners, and animation to independent and international films, Murray and Heumann exemplify how the use of comedy can expose and amplify environmental issues to a wider audience than more traditional ecocinema genres and can help provide a path towards positive action and change.

Ideal for students and scholars of film studies, ecocriticism, and environmental studies, especially those with a particular interest in ecocinema and/or ecocritical readings of popular films.

By: Robin L. Murray (Eastern Illinois University USA), Joseph K. Heumann (Eastern Illinois University, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9781032252162
ISBN 10: 1032252162
Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Robin L. Murray is Professor Emeritus of English (Eastern Illinois University) and continues to teach film courses. Joseph K. Heumann is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies (Eastern Illinois University) and continues to teach film courses.

Reviews for Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-Comedies on the Big Screen

"""Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann have a wonderful breadth of ecomedia knowledge, and this book addresses what scholars have been talking about as an important move in the field: humor in environmental studies. Murray and Heumann offer so many great recommendations here for those of us in ecomedia."" Bridgitte Barclay, Associate Professor of English and Environmental Studies, Aurora University, USA"