Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema

Author(s) : Robert Geal

Ecological Film Theory and Psychoanalysis: Surviving the Environmental Apocalypse in Cinema

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2023
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 288
  • Category :
    Environmental Studies
  • Category 2 :
    Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 97342
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032027760
  • ISBN 10 : 1032027762

Table of Contents


Introduction
1. Environmental crisis and epistemological crisis: Ecologically-destructive Cartesian subjectivity
2. Cinema spectatorship as an illusory Cartesian ‘symptom’
3. Realist film as cogito-centric film
4. Surviving environmental disasters in film ‘lifeboats’
5. Surviving environmental apocalypse in film ‘lifeboats’
6. Survivors in post-apocalyptic environmental dystopias
7. The possibilities of non-Cartesian film
Conclusion

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