Screening Nature And Nation

Author : Michael D. Clemens
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1771993359
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Nature and Nation written by Michael D. Clemens and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning portrayals of the Canadian landscape in the documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada, not only influenced cinematic language but shaped our perception of the environment. In the early days of the organization, nature films produced by the NFB supported the Canadian government’s nation-building project and show the state as an active participant in the cultural construction of the land. By the mid-1960s however, films like Cree Hunters of Mistassini and Death of a Legend were asking provocative questions about the state’s vision of nature. Filmmakers like Boyce Richardson and Bill Mason began to centre the experiences of First Nations people, contest the notion that nature should be transformed for economic gain, and challenge the idea that the North is a wild and empty landscape bereft of civilization. Author Michael Clemens describes how films produced by the NFB broadened the ecological imagination of Canadians over time and ultimately inspired an environmental movement.

Author : Anat Pick
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782382275
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening Nature written by Anat Pick and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed “posthuman cinema.” It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.

Author : Mark Fiege
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804149
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Republic of Nature written by Mark Fiege and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred. Revisiting historical icons so familiar that schoolchildren learn to take them for granted, he makes surprising connections that enable readers to see old stories in a new light. Among the historical moments revisited here, a revolutionary nation arises from its environment and struggles to reconcile the diversity of its people with the claim that nature is the source of liberty. Abraham Lincoln, an unlettered citizen from the countryside, steers the Union through a moment of extreme peril, guided by his clear-eyed vision of nature's capacity for improvement. In Topeka, Kansas, transformations of land and life prompt a lawsuit that culminates in the momentous civil rights case of Brown v. Board of Education. By focusing on materials and processes intrinsic to all things and by highlighting the nature of the United States, Fiege recovers the forgotten and overlooked ground on which so much history has unfolded. In these pages, the nation's birth and development, pain and sorrow, ideals and enduring promise come to life as never before, making a once-familiar past seem new. The Republic of Nature points to a startlingly different version of history that calls on readers to reconnect with fundamental forces that shaped the American experience. For more information, visit the author's website: http://republicofnature.com/

Author : John Opie
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature's Nation written by John Opie and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 1998 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature's Nation examines our consumer-based industrial and urban society and notes the heavy price paid to create this by placing the political, economic, social and cultural development of the U.S within an environmental framework.

Author : Candice Allmark-Kent
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031405560
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada written by Candice Allmark-Kent and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature, Science, and Animal Advocacy in Canada: Practical Zoocriticism is the first book-length study of animals in Canadian literature. Using a historical approach, it offers a much-needed alternative to existing models of animals as symbols of Canadian victimhood. Spanning more than a century, the scope of this book includes classic writers, Ernest Thompson Seton and Charles G. D. Roberts, as well as popular contemporary authors, such as Barbara Gowdy, Yann Martel, Margaret Atwood, and many others. By recontextualizing these works with closer attention to contemporary scientific and animal advocacy debates, this book offers a fresh new perspective on a wide range of texts.

Author : Gay Hawkins and Ben Dibley
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743329695
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Animals Public written by Gay Hawkins and Ben Dibley and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Animals Public: television, animality and political engagement focuses on the proliferation of animal content on television and how this has transformed how animals are known and encountered, generating unique modes of televisual animality. The book examines the multiplicity of public realities and knowledges that animals on TV have constituted: from scientific objectivity, to the unique Australian environment, to controversial victims of gross exploitation. Just as television has made animals public in very particular ways, it has also made new publics that have learnt to be affected by them. Thanks to extraordinary access to the ABC’s Natural History and general archives, the authors are able to investigate the dynamic relation between making animals public and making publics over time.

Author : National Academy of Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309085063
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty written by National Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the considerable existing body of technical material related to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed and assessed the key technical issues that arose during the Senate debate over treaty ratification. In particular, these include: (1) the capacity of the United States to maintain confidence in the safety and reliability of its nuclear stockpile in the absence of nuclear testing; (2) the nuclear-test detection capabilities of the international monitoring system (with and without augmentation by national systems and instrumentation in use for scientific purposes, and taking into account the possibilities for decoupling nuclear explosions from surrounding geologic media); and (3) the additions to their nuclear-weapons capabilities that other countries could achieve through nuclear testing at yield levels that might escape detection, and the effect of such additions on the security of the United States.

Author : John P. Devlin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482269805
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Throughput Screening written by John P. Devlin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-05-06 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furnishing the latest interdisciplinary information on the most important and frequently the only investigational system available for discovery programs that address the effects of small molecules on newly discovered enzyme and receptor targets emanating from molecular biology, this timely resource facilitates the transition from classical to high

Author : Erika Marie Bsumek
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199755353
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation-States and the Global Environment written by Erika Marie Bsumek and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nation-states are failing to resolve global problems that transcend the abilities of single governments or even groups of governments to address. This book argues that this dilemma is not as new as is sometimes claimed. It offers crucial context and even lessons for present-day debates about resolving the most urgent environmental problems.

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Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Public Schools PGT & TGT screening Test 2022 English (12 Practice Sets) written by and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Army Public Schools PGT & TGT screening Test 2022 English (12 Practice Sets) , 2022 consists of past 12 Practice Tests, This book is for screening Test 2022 English covering 12 Practice Sets of English . The complete chapter-wise distribution of questions for all subjects is provided in the Table of Content.