Environmental Ethics and Film

Bibliographic Data

ID19912100
AuthorsPat Brereton (0000-0003-1681-7202, corresponding author)
Year2015
Pages246
Publication date2015-09-16
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEnvironmental Ethics and Film (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315797151
OpenAlexW2342584201
Open LibraryOL36217738M
ISBN9781315797151
LanguageEN
Citations received14

Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms. In contemporary society, film has provided a powerful instrument for the moulding of such ethical attitudes. Through a close examination of the medium, Environmental Ethics and Film explores how historical ethical values can be re-imagined and re-constituted for more contemporary audiences. Building on an extensive back-catalogue of eco-film analysis, the author focuses on a diverse selection of contemporary films which target audiences’ ethical sensibilities in very different ways. Each chapter focuses on at least three close readings of films and documentaries, examining a wide range of environmental issues as they are illustrated across contemporary Hollywood films. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of environmental communication, film studies, media and cultural studies, environmental philosophy and ethics

Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Sociology · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Engineering · Materials Science · Philosophy · Bibel · Environmental protection and motion pictures · Environmentalism in motion pictures · Moral and ethical aspects · Motion pictures · Motion pictures, moral and ethical aspects · Nachhaltigkeit · Performing Arts · Reference · Umweltethik · Umweltschutz

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