Brereton P. Hollywood Utopia. Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema

Portland: Intellect Books, 2005. — 269 p. — Electronic ISBN: 1-84150-912-4 / ISBN: 1-84150117-4.Utopianism, alongside its more prevalent dystopian opposite, together with ecological study has become a magnet for interdisciplinary research and is used extensively to examine the most influential global medium of all time. This book applies a range of interdisciplinary strategies to trace the evolution of ecological representations in Hollywood film from the 1950s to the present. Such a study has not been done on this scale before. Many popular science fiction, Westerns, nature and road movies are extensively analysed, while privileging particular ecological moments of sublime expression often dramatized in the closing moments of these films.Contents include:
Hollywood Utopia: Ecology and Contemporary American Cinema
Nature Film and Ecology: Westerns, Landscape and Road Movies
Conspiracy Thrillers and Science Fiction: 1950s to1990s
Postmodernist Science Fiction Films and Ecology