[SFRA-L] sf film and environmentalism

[Sue & Bruce Rockwood]

Gattaca
Perhaps "Matinee"

Bruce Rockwood

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Rabkin, Eric <esrabkin at umich.edu> wrote:

> Mad Max; Waterworld; I Am Legend…
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> Eric S. Rabkin
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> Arthur F. Thurnau Professor
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> Department of English
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> University of Michigan
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> Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
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> *From:* sfra-l-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [mailto:
> sfra-l-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] *On Behalf Of *Jennifer Moorman
> *Sent:* Monday, September 13, 2010 6:01 PM
> *To:* sfra-l at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> *Subject:* [SFRA-L] sf film and environmentalism
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> Apologies if anyone has recently asked a similar question, but I couldn't
> find anything in my email archives . . .
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> I'm putting together a class on Cinema and Environmentalism, and am
> planning to focus primarily on sf.  I'm including Soylent Green, Silent
> Running, Avatar, Sleep Dealer, The Host, Them!, and Wall-E.  Arguably the
> entire cycles of atomic age sf (Godzilla, etc.) and "nature strikes back"
> films (Night of the Lepus, etc.) could be applicable.  But can anyone think
> of any other useful examples, off the top of your collective heads?  In
> particular, I'm having trouble remembering which post-apocalyptic films,
> aside from those I've already mentioned, imply environmental causes (e.g.
> running out of natural resources) for the apocalypse they depict.  Also, I
> am particularly interested in coming up with films produced outside the US.
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> Thanks in advance,
> Jen
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> Jennifer Moorman
> PhD Candidate
> Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA
> Lecturer, Otis College
> jmoorman at ucla.edu
> jmoorman at otis.edu
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