Environmental Ethics and Ecocinema
Abstract
This chapter will focus on mainstream media and outline some of the broad environmental trajectories engaged with by a selection of eco-films, drawing on canonical case studies of An Inconvenient Truth and popular fiction films The Day After Tomorrow, Avatar and WALL-E , as well as a recent popular television series Yellowstone , which puts a new spin on the Western and the Land Ethic. Before concluding the chapter with extensive analysis of survival-at-sea films that might not immediately call to mind an explicitly environmental or ethical agenda – namely All Is Lost and Captain Phillips .
Fields of Study & Subjects
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
Cinema History and Criticism
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 31–60
- Publication date
- 6 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter