The First Eco-Disaster Film?

Robin L. Murray · Joseph K. Heumann

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Cinema History and Criticism Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis

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ABSTRACT When Bertrand Tavernier claims that the Lumière Brothers' “Oil Wells of Baku: Close View” “may be the first ecological film ever made,” he seems to be reading the spectacular footage of burning oil wells from an eco-critical perspective. This article examines oil well fire films from 1896 to the present, asking how and why environmental disaster becomes spectacle.

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