Mark Cioc | from the editor | Environmental History, 12.2

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Mark Cioc | from the editor | Environmental History, 12.2 | The History Cooperative

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THIS ISSUE FEATURES "Films Every Environmental Historian Should See," thirty-seven short essays that examine a variety of feature-length films, documentaries, and television mini-series that have been produced over the past several decades. Some of the films will be familiar to most readers (Born Free, Deliverance, Jaws, March of the Penguins, A River Runs Through It, and Whale Rider, for instance), others less so (Close to Eden, Darwin's Nightmare, Petulia, and The Wilderness Idea). A few—Forest Smokechaser, A Fortune in Two Old Trunks, Landmarks, Thirteen Lakes, among them—are likely to have escaped the attention of even the most avid filmgoers. Some are classics (The Plow that Broke the Plains and Louisiana Story) while others are of recent vintage (Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control and Who Killed the Electric Car?).

While I would like to take credit for the idea of focusing on films, in truth Gregory Cushman gave me the idea many months ago and also agreed to write one of the first pieces. I decided to utilize the same format that Adam Rome used when he prepared the Anniversary Forum, "What Books Should Be More Widely Read in Environmental History?," in October 2006. Like Adam, I made no effort to be comprehensive—Chinatown is missing, for instance—simply because there are far too many films (just as there are too many books) of importance to environmental historians to fit the available space. I just asked a group of leading historians and film experts to choose one or more of their favorite "environmental" films, and then I made sure that their choices did not overlap too much.

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