Ecomedia: Key Issues

Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally. Linking the world of media production, distribution, and consumption to environmental understandings, the book addresses ecological meanings encoded in media texts, the environmental impacts of media production, and the relationships between media and cultural perceptions of the environment. [From the publisher]https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1084/thumbnail.jp

Review of \u3ci\u3eGunfight at the Eco-Corral: Western Cinema and the Environment\u3c/i\u3e By Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann.

Is there any image from Hollywood cinema more iconic than a lone cowboy riding across a Western landscape? While much has been written about such themes as individualism, empire, and landscape in Hollywood Westerns, until recently scholars have ignored the central trope underlying all others in these films—the ecological relationship between humans and their environment. The Western, as Robin Murray and Joseph Heumann explain, both masks and unmasks this trope by dramatizing and oversimplifying ecological issues while mythologizing the cowboy’s relationship with the land. In this comprehensive study, the authors build on their previous work on popular cinema and animated films by approaching the Western from a postmodern, ecocentric perspective. They contend that such an approach can help scholars move beyond the essentialist, a historical conceptions of nature often espoused by nature writers and philosophers. This approach can illuminate the real-world ecological and environmental justice concerns underlying cinematic texts. Each chapter thus combines textual analysis with environmental science and history to deconstruct Hollywood Westerns that portray such issues as mining, water rights, and the oil boom. Chapter 1, for example, analyzes the battle over free-range and fenced ranching as depicted in Shane (1953) and Sea of Grass (1947). Shane foregrounds the need for fencing to protect homesteaders and the environment from being trampled upon by corporate ranchers. Sea of Grass invokes images of the Dust Bowl to argue for a free-range approach. The authors analyze this debate not only in terms of the historical periods depicted in the films but also in relation to scientific understandings at the time of their production, thus providing a model for future scholars in addressing issues like the debate between factory and organic meat production

Introduction: Cuts to Dissolves – Defining and Situating Ecocinema Studies

This is the abstract for the entire book: Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind—an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema’s intersections with environmental understandings. It references seminal readings through cutting edge research and is designed as an introduction to the field as well as a sourcebook. It defines ecocinema studies, sketches its development over the past twenty years, provides theoretical frameworks for moving forward, and presents eloquent examples of the practice of eco-film criticism through essays written by the field’s leading and emerging scholars. From explicitly environmental films such as Werner Herzong\u27s Grizzly Man and Roland Emmerich\u27s The Day After Tomorrow to less obvious examples like Errol Morris\u27s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control and Christopher Nolan\u27s Inception, the pieces in this collection comprehensively interrogate the breadth of ecocinema. Ecocinema Theory and Practice also directs readers to further study through lists of recommended readings, professional organizations, and relevant periodicals

Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the themes of cinematic materialities, discourses, and communities, the volume explores a variety of topics within ecocinema studies from examining specifc national and indigenous flm contexts to discussing ecojustice, environmental production studies, flm festivals, and political ecology. The breadth of the contributions exemplifes how ecocinema scholars worldwide have sought to overcome the historical legacy of binary thinking and intellectual norms and are working to champion new ecocritical, intersectional, decolonial, queer, feminist, Indigenous, vitalist, and other emergent theories and cinematic prac-tices. The collection also demonstrates the unique ways that cinema studies scholarship is actively addressing environmental injustice and the climate crisis. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of ecocritical flm and media studies, production studies, cultural studies, and environmental studies.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1181/thumbnail.jp

Writing as Inquiry

226 page pdf and alternative eBook version.This textbook was written to accompany WR 121 College Composition at U of O.Welcome to our creative commons OER (open educational resource) for Writing 121 at the University of Oregon. This resource is designed for students to be a zero-cost, high-quality guide to academic writing, with the goal of preparing you for success in college and beyond. The most up to data and interactive version of this book can be found at https://opentext.uoregon.edu/writingasinquiry/ (clickable link above).University of Oregon Librarie

The Culture of Science

38 page PDF casebook and alternative format EPUB.This casebook opens up modes of inquiry into Western knowledge foundations, asking students to embrace epistemological uncertainty as a productive means of developing critical thinking skills. Each chapter includes an introduction and a reading list with links and a brief description. The most up to date, interactive and readable version of this text can be found at https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/cultureofscience/ (see clickable link above).Open Orego

Science and Culture: Readings for Writers

38 page PDF and alternate eBook format.This book was written to accompany WR 122z at the University of Oregon.Science and Culture is a resource intended for college and secondary students to engage with scientific concepts, facts, and history as they relate to society in the United States and globally. The multimodality, diversity of voices, and range of topics should appeal to anyone interested in exploring these particular knowledge debates across natural and social sciences, humanities, and creative arts. The themes in this volume have been cultivated to engage readers not merely as receptors of information but as active participants in this ongoing process of knowledge building. The most up to date and interactive version of this book can be found at https://opentext.uoregon.edu/science-and-culture/ (clickable link above).University of Oregon Librarie

Students\u27 Perceived Usefulness and Relevance of Communication Skills in the Basic Course: Comparing University and Community College Students

Communication skills training is extremely important in terms of students\u27 career choices. However, few studies have been conducted regarding differences between community colleges and four-year universities in terms of students\u27 perceived usefulness and relevance of the study of communication in relation to career choice. The present study extends extant research by examining students\u27 perceptions of this issue. The participants in Study 1 were 155 community college and 291 four-year university students and participants in Study 2 were 205 community college students. The results demonstrate that students at both institutions perceive that the skills learned in basic communication courses are useful and relevant in relation to their future career. There were differences among students enrolled in interpersonal and public speaking courses, with those in interpersonal courses perceiving greater relevance of communication skills in terms of their future career

2013-2014 Master Class - Phillip Evans (Piano)

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