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DOI	10.3138/cjfs-2023-0016
	THE MAN WHO CHANGED THE CLIMATE: FREDERIC BACK'S FILM ADAPTATION OF THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES
	Kevra, Susan
发表日期	2024
ISSN	0847-5911
EISSN	2561-424X
起始页码	32
结束页码	2
卷号	32 期号:2
英文摘要	Jean Giono's 1952 novella, L'Homme qui plantait des arbres, tells the story of a solitary shepherd who spends decades tirelessly planting trees in southern France, restoring life, water, vegetation, and happiness to a once desolate region. Less obvious are clues embedded in the story that point to the cause of the region's desolation, deforestation at the hands of desperate charcoal makers. Although Giono wrote the story in 1952, before the term climate change was coined, he was profoundly attuned to the natural world and concerned about the destructive effects of reckless human exploitation of the environment. This strikingly prescient tale recalls our own twenty-first-century world with drought, fires, and flooding in the headlines every day. Frederic Back, a dedicated environmentalist and planter of trees, spent six years adapting Giono's tale for the screen. How Back translated Giono's tale to the screen is the focus of this paper. Of particular interest will be his depiction of the causes and effects of climate change and the misery engendered by it. Backs' animation leaves us a bit haunted, but he stops short, throwing us a life vest and allowing us to imagine a better, healthier world, a vision predicated on humans taking care of the natural world and halting practices that imperil life on earth, making them positive agents for climate change. In this way, the film's depiction of climate change does not move irrevocably towards calamity as most cli-fi films do; Giono's story is one of redemption, signaled by Back's shift from a monochromatic palette early in the film to scenes at the end that recall Monet's gardens, teeming with color, life, and joy. Key to understanding the film will be discussion of both Giono and Back's environmental activism, as well as consideration of Back's earlier films.
英文关键词	film; adaptations; changement climatique; animation; Frederic Back; Jean Giono
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Film, Radio & Television
WOS类目	Film, Radio, Television
WOS记录号	WOS:001159053600009
来源期刊	CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FILM STUDIES-REVUE CANADIENNE D ETUDES CINEMATOGRAPHIQUES
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/309038
作者单位	Vanderbilt University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kevra, Susan. THE MAN WHO CHANGED THE CLIMATE: FREDERIC BACK'S FILM ADAPTATION OF THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES[J],2024,32(2).
APA	Kevra, Susan.(2024).THE MAN WHO CHANGED THE CLIMATE: FREDERIC BACK'S FILM ADAPTATION OF THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES.CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FILM STUDIES-REVUE CANADIENNE D ETUDES CINEMATOGRAPHIQUES,32(2).
MLA	Kevra, Susan."THE MAN WHO CHANGED THE CLIMATE: FREDERIC BACK'S FILM ADAPTATION OF THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES".CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FILM STUDIES-REVUE CANADIENNE D ETUDES CINEMATOGRAPHIQUES 32.2(2024).

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