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Film and Everyday Eco-disasters

Film and Everyday Eco-disasters

Robin L. Murray; Joseph K. Heumann

University of Nebraska Press
2014
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Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual tensions between human needs and the environmental impact these needs produce. Contemporary documentaries and feature films explore environmental-human conflicts by depicting the consequences of our overconsumption and dependence on nonrenewable energy.Film and Everyday Eco-disasters examines changing perspectives toward everyday eco-disasters as reflected in the work of filmmakers from the silent era forward, with an emphasis on recent films such as Dead Ahead, an HBO dramatization of the Exxon Valdez disaster; Total Recall, a science fiction action film highlighting oxygen as a commodity; The Devil Wears Prada, a comment on the fashion industry; and Food, Inc., a documentary interrogation of the food industry. The authors evaluate not only the success of these films as rhetorical arguments but also their rhetorical strategies. This interdisciplinary approach to film studies fuses cultural, economic, and literary critiques in articulating an approach to ecology that points to sustainable development as an alternative to resource exploitations and their associated everyday eco-disasters.
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Monstrous Nature

Monstrous Nature

Robin L. Murray; Joseph K. Heumann

University of Nebraska Press
2016
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Godzilla, a traditional natural monster and representation of cinema’s subgenre of natural attack, also provides a cautionary symbol of the dangerous consequences of mistreating the natural world-monstrous nature on the attack. Horror films such as Godzilla invite an exploration of the complexities of a monstrous nature that humanity both creates and embodies. Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann demonstrate how the horror film and its offshoots can often be understood in relation to a monstrous nature that has evolved either deliberately or by accident and that generates fear in humanity as both character and audience. This connection between fear and the natural world opens up possibilities for ecocritical readings often missing from research on monstrous nature, the environment, and the horror film. Organized in relation to four recurring environmental themes in films that construct nature as a monster-anthropomorphism, human ecology, evolution, and gendered landscapes-the authors apply ecocritical perspectives to reveal the multiple ways nature is constructed as monstrous or in which the natural world itself constructs monsters. This interdisciplinary approach to film studies fuses cultural, theological, and scientific critiques to explore when and why nature becomes monstrous.
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Gunfight at the Eco-Corral

Gunfight at the Eco-Corral

Robin L. Murray; Joseph K. Heumann

University of Oklahoma Press
2012
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Most film critics point to classic conflicts - good versus evil, right versus wrong, civilization versus savagery - as defining themes of the American Western. In this provocative examination of Westerns from Tumbleweeds (1925) to Rango (2011), Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann argue for a more expansive view that moves beyond traditional conflicts to encompass environmental themes and struggles. The environment, after all, is the fundamental stage for most western stories, from land rush dramas that pit ""sod busters"" against ranchers to conflicts between mining-town communities and corporations. Because environmental issues lie at the forefront of so many conflicts today, Murray and Heumann believe that the Western is ripe for such new examination.Drawing on perspectives from both film studies and environmental history, the authors show how western films frequently deal with issues related to land use and different ways of looking at the natural world. In films as diverse as Gene Autry musicals, early John Wayne B-Westerns, and revisionist critiques such as the 2010 remake of True Grit, resources are exploited in the name of progress. Beginning with an analysis of two iconic Westerns, Shane and The Searchers, Murray and Heumann identify the environmental dichotomies - previously overlooked by critics - that are broached in both films, and they clarify the history that lies behind the environmental debates in these films and many others.How do Westerns respond to the historical contexts they present? And what do those responses suggest about American views of nature and its exploitation? The conflicts these movies address grow out of differing views of progress, frequently in relation to technology. The authors show that such binary oppositions tend to blur when examined closely, demonstrating that environmental issues are often more complex than we realize.
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Film, Environment, Comedy

Film, Environment, Comedy

Robin L. Murray; Joseph K. Heumann

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2022
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This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that reveals the evolution of both eco-comedy films and theoretical approaches, this book project aims to fill a gap in ecocinema scholarship. It does so by exploring three sections arranged to highlight the breadth of eco-comedy: I. Comic Genres and the Green World: Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral Visions; II. Laughter, Eco-Heroes, and Evolutionary Narratives of Consumption; and III. Environmental Nostalgia, Fuel, and the Carnivalesque. Examining everything from Hollywood classics, Oscar winners, and animation to independent and international films, Murray and Heumann exemplify how the use of comedy can expose and amplify environmental issues to a wider audience than more traditional ecocinema genres and can help provide a path towards positive action and change.Ideal for students and scholars of film studies, ecocriticism, and environmental studies, especially those with a particular interest in ecocinema and/or ecocritical readings of popular films.
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Film, Environment, Comedy

Film, Environment, Comedy

Robin L. Murray; Joseph K. Heumann

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2024
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This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the complex ways environmental comedies present their eco-arguments. With an organizational structure that reveals the evolution of both eco-comedy films and theoretical approaches, this book project aims to fill a gap in ecocinema scholarship. It does so by exploring three sections arranged to highlight the breadth of eco-comedy: I. Comic Genres and the Green World: Pastoral, Anti-Pastoral, and Post-Pastoral Visions; II. Laughter, Eco-Heroes, and Evolutionary Narratives of Consumption; and III. Environmental Nostalgia, Fuel, and the Carnivalesque. Examining everything from Hollywood classics, Oscar winners, and animation to independent and international films, Murray and Heumann exemplify how the use of comedy can expose and amplify environmental issues to a wider audience than more traditional ecocinema genres and can help provide a path towards positive action and change.Ideal for students and scholars of film studies, ecocriticism, and environmental studies, especially those with a particular interest in ecocinema and/or ecocritical readings of popular films.
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Eco-Teen Films

Eco-Teen Films

Robin L. Murray; Joseph K. Heumann

TAYLOR FRANCIS LTD
2024
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Illuminating the impacts of environmental disasters and climate crises globally, this book examines the experiences of teens grappling with eco-disasters and issues in films of the twenty-first century.With an emphasis on teen activism, international settings and filmmakers, and marginalized perspectives, this book showcases teens on film that are struggling with present and future everyday eco-disasters amplified by climate change. By highlighting and interrogating diverse genres of teen films in which young adults encounter, address, and battle environmental issues and calamities while also struggling with adolescent development, this book acknowledges the young adult point of view missing from most critical ecocinema research and underlines connections between the more complex ‘coming-of-age’ themes found in teen films with ecocinema themes and approaches. The films examined navigate increasingly realistic conditions, even in fantastical settings, as they showcase teens’ relationships with and responses to environmental issues and eco-disasters. Emphasizing teen activism and under-represented intersectional perspectives outside Hollywood, it establishes the eco-teen film as a notable subgenre.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of film studies, ecocriticism, and environmental studies, especially those with a particular interest in ecocinema and/or ecocritical readings of films.
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Ecocinema in the City

Ecocinema in the City

Robin L. Murray; Joseph K. Heumann

Routledge
2017
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In Ecocinema in the City, Murray and Heumann argue that urban ecocinema both reveals and critiques visions of urban environmentalism. The book emphasizes the increasingly transformative power of nature in urban settings, explored in both documentaries and fictional films such as Children Underground, White Dog, Hatari! and Lives Worth Living. The first two sections—"Evolutionary Myths Under the City" and "Urban Eco-trauma"—take more traditional ecocinema approaches and emphasize the city as a dangerous constructed space. The last two sections—"Urban Nature and Interdependence" and "The Sustainable City"—however, bring to life the vibrant relationships between human and nonhuman nature. Ecocinema in the City provides a space to explore these relationships, revealing how ecocinema shows that both human and nonhuman nature can interact sustainably and thrive.
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Target in Control

Target in Control

Andrzej K. Nowak; Robin R. Vallacher; Agnieszka Rychwalska; Magdalena Roszczynska-Kurasinska; Karolina Ziembowicz; Mikolaj Biesaga; Marta Kacprzyk-Murawska

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2020
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This concise monograph introduces and examines social influence from the perspective of the so-called target, rather than from the source, thus providing for the first time a bidirectional account of this pervasive social phenomenon, further bridging simple micro-level dyadic interaction rules with macro-level properties of the (social) system. This integrative approach allows for advanced models of influence to be developed in both the social and natural sciences (e.g. social animals). In particular, when used to investigate emergent properties of social change, this approach shows that social transitions occur as “bubbles of new” in the “sea of old.” While in the traditional view influence is synonymous with achieving power and control over others, the present approach to social influence puts the emphasis on the target’s motives and strategies. Here, the target may actively seek out influence to help forge opinions and achieve guidance regarding courses of action. In this process, the target observes others, models their thought and behavior, and asks for information and opinions. In this broadened perspective, the processes of social influence enables those being influenced (the targets) to use the knowledge and processing capacity of influence sources to maximize their access to information, minimize their processing effort, while optimizing their own functioning and that of the social system in which they evolve. This short text addresses above all scientists interested in social influence in the fields of psychology, sociology, economy, marketing, and biology. However, also researchers interested in modeling social processes, especially opinion dynamics and social change, such as computer scientists, physicists and applied mathematicians will benefit from the insights provided.
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In Sync

In Sync

Andrzej K. Nowak; Robin R. Vallacher; Ryszard Praszkier; Agnieszka Rychwalska; Michal Zochowski

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2020
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This book introduces the reader to the concept of functional synchronization and how it operates on very different levels in psychological and social systems – from the emergence of thought to the formation of social relations and the structure of societies. For years, psychologists have investigated phenomena such as self-concept, social judgment, social relations, group dynamics, and cooperation and conflict, but have discussed these phenomena seoarately.This book shows how synchronization provides a foundational approach to these otherwise distinct and diverse psychological processes.This work shows that there is a basic tendency with many processes to become coordinated and progressively integrated into increasingly larger units through well-defined processes. For these larger units, new and largely adaptive functions emerge. Although synchronization affords progressive integration of system elements to enable correspondingly higher-order functions, the trajectory of synchronization is often characterized by periods of assembly and disassembly of system elements. This occurs when a task is completed and synchronization is no longer essential so that the elements once again operate in an independent fashion. It is argued that the disassembly-resynchronization scenario occurs at all levels of psychological and social reality. The implications of this approach for important issues in interpersonal relations and societal processes are discussed.
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In Sync

In Sync

Andrzej K. Nowak; Robin R. Vallacher; Ryszard Praszkier; Agnieszka Rychwalska; Michal Zochowski

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2021
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This book introduces the reader to the concept of functional synchronization and how it operates on very different levels in psychological and social systems – from the emergence of thought to the formation of social relations and the structure of societies. For years, psychologists have investigated phenomena such as self-concept, social judgment, social relations, group dynamics, and cooperation and conflict, but have discussed these phenomena seoarately.This book shows how synchronization provides a foundational approach to these otherwise distinct and diverse psychological processes.This work shows that there is a basic tendency with many processes to become coordinated and progressively integrated into increasingly larger units through well-defined processes. For these larger units, new and largely adaptive functions emerge. Although synchronization affords progressive integration of system elements to enable correspondingly higher-order functions, the trajectory of synchronization is often characterized by periods of assembly and disassembly of system elements. This occurs when a task is completed and synchronization is no longer essential so that the elements once again operate in an independent fashion. It is argued that the disassembly-resynchronization scenario occurs at all levels of psychological and social reality. The implications of this approach for important issues in interpersonal relations and societal processes are discussed.
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Tips & Tricks for Analyzing Text and Citing Evidence

Tips & Tricks for Analyzing Text and Citing Evidence

Sandra K. Athans; Robin W. Parente

Rosen Young Adult
2014
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The Common Core standards were created to help readers get the most out of every book they read, inside and outside of the classroom. Training students to understand how to read critically is highly important and will help prepare them for college, career, and life beyond that. This engaging volume asks readers to look closely at individual passages of text, analyze their meaning, and look at the evidence that supports their meaning. Quiz questions create an interactive experience for readers, allowing them to get the most out of what they read.
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Tips & Tricks for Evaluating Multimedia Content

Tips & Tricks for Evaluating Multimedia Content

Sandra K. Athans; Robin W. Parente

Rosen Young Adult
2014
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The ability to read and evaluate multimedia content is a large part of the Common Core Standards for Reading. This comprehensive volume helps give students and readers the tools they need to study multimedia content more effectively, leading to better grades and greater success in high school, college, and a career. It includes excerpts of writing and quiz questions that allow readers to study and evaluate their work at a comfortable pace and then check their answers in the supplied bonus information.
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The Early Education Leader's Guide

The Early Education Leader's Guide

Nonie K. Lesaux; Stephanie M. Jones; Annie Connors; Robin Kane

Guilford Press
2019
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Grounded in current research and theory, this practical book guides program leaders and staff developers to design and implement engaging professional development and coaching approaches. It focuses on early educator competencies essential for high-quality learning and teaching--executive functions, emotion regulation, relationship skills, and talk for learning. Illustrated with an extended vignette of an early learning center, the book highlights how addressing educators' professional needs is a pathway to children's cognitive, social–emotional, and academic growth. User-friendly features include 24 reproducible checklists, handouts, and self-study and planning tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.
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The Early Education Leader's Guide

The Early Education Leader's Guide

Nonie K. Lesaux; Stephanie M. Jones; Annie Connors; Robin Kane

Guilford Press
2018
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Grounded in current research and theory, this practical book guides program leaders and staff developers to design and implement engaging professional development and coaching approaches. It focuses on early educator competencies essential for high-quality learning and teaching--executive functions, emotion regulation, relationship skills, and talk for learning. Illustrated with an extended vignette of an early learning center, the book highlights how addressing educators' professional needs is a pathway to children's cognitive, social–emotional, and academic growth. User-friendly features include 24 reproducible checklists, handouts, and self-study and planning tools. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.
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Understanding the Frontal Lobe of the Brain: Fractioning the Prefrontal Lobes and the Associated Executive Functions

Understanding the Frontal Lobe of the Brain: Fractioning the Prefrontal Lobes and the Associated Executive Functions

Tonya Comstock; Robin E. Kissinger; K. Drorit Gaines

Fielding University Press
2017
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The frontal lobes function much like the conductor of an orchestra whose job it is to organize the tasks of each section of the orchestra in order to produce a cohesive result, namely the music. If the conductor is impaired in some way the various sections of the orchestra may still possess the ability to create music, but without the direction of the conductor the result may very well be unorganized cacophony (Goldberg, 2009). Thus, study of executive functioning as a phenomenon of the frontal areas holds promise for practical application to real-life problems. Indeed, there is currently a dearth of executive functioning therapies available for those impacted by damaged frontal lobes or connecting pathways (Levine et al., 2011). This book is an attempt to map these executive functions through fractionation, which allows us to consider unique contributions of each functional-structural unit, which ideally fosters a better understanding of the system as a whole.
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The National Computer Security Survey (NCSS)

The National Computer Security Survey (NCSS)

Lois M. Davis; Daniela Golinelli; Robin Beckman; Sarah K. Cotton; Robert H. Anderson; Anil Bamezai; Chris Corey; Megan Zander-Cotugo; John L. Adams; Roald Euller

RAND
2008
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In 2006, RAND conducted the National Computer Security Survey (NCSS), the first nationally representative cybersecurity survey of businesses within the United States on behalf of the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. This report documents the methodology used to develop and field the NCSS, as well as the sampling design and weighting methodology used.
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Transnational and Cross-Border Criminal Law

Transnational and Cross-Border Criminal Law

Robert J. Currie; Donald K. Piragoff; Gillian MacNeil; Joseph Rikhof; Michael Nesbitt; Christopher Ram; Leah West; Robin Parker; Peter M. German; James Cohen; Sanaa Ahmed; Michelle Gallant; Joanna Harrington; W. Michael G. Osborne; Kathryn Zedde; Stephen Schneider; Frédéric Mégret; Jeffrey G. Johnston; Amélie Aubut; Adelina Iftene; Olivia Genge; Fraser M. Kelly; Elizabeth Bennett

Irwin Law
2023
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The time of globalization has seen an onslaught of criminal activity that crosses borders. The legal suppression and prosecution of transnational and cross-border crime raise unique and complex legal issues, and law enforcement, lawyers, and judges have struggled to keep up. Transnational & Cross-Border Criminal Law: Canadian Perspectives fills a pronounced gap in Canadian legal literature. Written by subject matter experts, each chapter exposes and analyzes a current and pressing issue in this realm and is designed both to serve as a resource for researchers and to provide cutting-edge insight on front-burner issues. The group of authors -- made up of prosecutors, defence lawyers, government counsel, academics, and civil society advocates -- take on a variety of subjects, including terrorism, financial crime and corruption, jurisdiction, extradition, money laundering, trafficking, maritime enforcement, cross-border evidence-gathering, and the international transfer of prisoners. This unique collection will help to advance general understanding of one of the most pressing public policy issues of our time.
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Pro .NET 1.1 Remoting, Reflection, and Threading

Pro .NET 1.1 Remoting, Reflection, and Threading

Syed Fahad Gilani; Jonathan Pinnock; James Hart; Benny K. Mathew; Geir Olsen; Robin Pars; Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati; Tobin Titus; Tejaswi Redkar; Srinivasa Sivakumar; Sandra Gopikrishna; David Curran; Mike Gillespie

APress
2005
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Three powerful technologies— Remoting, Reflection, and Threading— are combined in a single book! And when these technologies come together, you are faced with a powerful range of tools that allow you to run code faster, more securely, and more flexibly. (And performance gains are critical in today’s industry!) So you’ll be able to code applications across the spectrum—from a single machine to an entire network. This book begins by discussing the most fundamental of the three techniques: .NET Remoting in VB.NET—which allows you to customize your application communication processes. The next portion of the book covers Reflection, which allows you to examine code at run time, regardless of prior knowledge of its structure. Finally, the book explores Threading, which helps break up your application into multiple, independent threads.
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How To Write Even Better Adventures

How To Write Even Better Adventures

Michael Mearls; Steve Jackson; Ed Greenwood; Robin D. Laws; Kenneth Hite; Sean K Reynolds; Kelsey Dionne; Jean Rabe

Goodman Games
2025
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This new gamemaster’s guide is great for TTRPG writers, but it’s also great for aspiring fiction writers as well. There’s so many essays from famous designers in the TTRPG space that can help level up your games! A sequel to one of our all-time best sellers! Level up your adventure writing skills with advice from famous designers. Includes essays by Ed Greenwood, Luke Gygax, Mike Mearls, Steve Jackson, Robin D. Laws, Kenneth Hite, Kelsey Dionne, Harley Stroh, Jean Rabe, Matt Forbeck, Phil Reed, Steven Winter, Michael Curtis, Chris Doyle, Brendan LaSalle, Sean K. Reynolds, Jerry Grayson, and others.
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