{"product_id":"on-life-support-1","title":"On Life Support","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinding strategies for today's environmental movement in classic science fiction films\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can science fiction film tell us about the course of the modern ecological movement? \u003ci\u003eOn Life Support\u003c\/i\u003e traces how the environmental concerns of the 1970s were embedded in the eco-dystopian cinema of the era - and considers its implications for ecological thought and activism today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIlluminating the patterns that shape our thinking about nonhuman nature, Matthew I. Thompson pairs iconic films such as \u003ci\u003eSoylent Green\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSilent Running\u003c\/i\u003e with the transformational environmentalist texts that inspired them and kick-started the modern environmental movement, including Rachel Carson's \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e and Buckminster Fuller's \u003ci\u003eOperating Manual for Spaceship Earth\u003c\/i\u003e. Thompson examines this confluence of literature and cinema to show how, as they translated environmentalism for Hollywood's audiences, these movies distilled the movement's concepts into a form that revealed their inherent contradictions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sensitive analysis of the tensions that complicate environmentalist praxis—especially between desire and fear in the activist impulse - \u003ci\u003eOn Life Support\u003c\/i\u003e offers a timely critique of the politics of environmental containment and control, calling instead for a politics of interconnection and contamination. It is, after all, by inviting complexity and chaos that we begin to undermine the myth of human mastery, letting nature flourish on its own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56414321213784,"sku":"9781517917326","price":102.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781517917326_59b83bcd-6b3a-4dd7-84c5-1e758408a7ea.jpg?v=1780117270","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/on-life-support-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}