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Film and Everyday Eco-disasters

Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann

Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear
regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises
highlight the continual tensions between human needs and the environmental impact
these needs produce. Contemporary documentaries and feature films explore environmental-
human conflicts by depicting the consequences of our overconsumption and
dependence on nonrenewable energy.

Film and Everyday Eco-disasters examines changing perspectives toward everyday
eco-disasters as reflected in the work of filmmakers from the silent era forward, with
an emphasis on recent films such as Dead Ahead, an hbo dramatization of the Exxon
Valdez disaster; Total Recall, a science fiction action film highlighting oxygen as a
commodity; The Devil Wears Prada, a comment on the fashion industry; and Food,
Inc., a documentary interrogation of the food industry. The authors evaluate not only
the success of these films as rhetorical arguments but also their rhetorical strategies.

This interdisciplinary approach to film studies fuses cultural, economic, and literary
critiques in articulating an approach to ecology that points to sustainable development
as an alternative to resource exploitations and their associated everyday eco-disasters.
Robin L. Murray is a professor of English at Eastern Illinois University.
Joseph K. Heumann is a professor emeritus of communication studies at Eastern
Illinois University. Murray and Heumann are the coauthors of Ecology and Popular
Film: Cinema on the Edge; That’s All Folks: Ecocritical Readings of American Animated
Features (Nebraska, 2011); and Gunfight at the Eco-Corral: Western Cinema and the
Environment.

June 2014

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Robin L. Murray, PhD
Professor of English and Women's Studies
Eastern Illinois Writing Project Director
Film Studies Minor Coordinator
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Avenue
Charleston, IL 61920

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