At Eastern Illinois University, Robin L. Murray is Professor of English and Joseph K. Heumann is Professor of Communication Studies.

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Introduction: Reading the Environment in Popular Cinema

1.   Ecology and Spectacle in Oil Wells of Baku: Close View: The First Eco-Disaster Film?

2.   Environmental Politics: Pare Lorentz's The River and the Tennessee Valley Authority

3.   Reconstructing Underground Urban Space in Dark Days

4.   Ecology, Place, and Home in Dark City: Is It Our Nature to Live in the Dark?

5.   Environmental Nostalgia and The Tragic Eco-Hero: The Case of Soylent Green and the 1970s Eco-Disaster Film

6.   The Comic Eco-Hero: Spoofing Eco-Disaster in Eight Legged Freaks

7.   Eco-Terrorism in Film: Pale Rider and the Revenge Cycle

8.   Car Culture and the Transformation of the American Landscape in The Fast and the Furious

9.   Film Ecology: Simulated Construction and Destruction in Hooper

10.  Apocalypse as a "Return to Normality" in 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later

Conclusion: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and its Skeptics: A Case of Environmental Nostalgia 

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