ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to offer fresh readings of certain films within mainstream cinema that have been rather too summarily dismissed as failing to deliver an ethically appropriate narrative. It also aims to demonstrate how narrative cinema colludes with ideological practices of capitalism at work and their global impact. The book examines in greater detail the narrative construction of two films that give evidence of ecologically sound production practices. In the arts, the Anthropocene and its effects are noticeably at the heart of numerous plays, films, television dramas, nature programmes and documentaries, painting, sculpture, novels, music, and poetry. School children are demanding the right to have a decent environment in which to live.
