"Ecovisioni. Ecology at the cinema from the Lumière brothers to Marvel" by Marco Gisotti, Edizioni Ambiente, is in bookstores and online shops, the first book in Italy to tell the story of cinema through environmental and climate issues.
The preface is signed by Claudia Cardinale.
«In this volume - explains Gisotti - I review 150 works, 100 in detail and another 50 more succinctly for use and consumption of possible educational uses.
Starting with what the great filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier defined as "the first ecological film ever made", "Baku", produced by the Lumière brothers in 1896».
From Buster Keaton to "Metropolis", from "Bambi" to "2022: the survivors", from the first "Avatar" to the most recent "Drought": all the great films and the most important directors who have told the story of the ecological crisis and its possible (or impossible) solutions.
A perspective that does not fail to include very popular titles that reveal pieces of our country's history or unexpected alarms such as "The return of Don Camillo", which tells the true tragedy of Polesine, or "007 Quantum of Solace" where the James Bond of Daniel Craig has to fight against a ruthless environmental speculator, until recent Marvel films in which the metaphor of
The book also draws attention to the environmental impacts of the cinema chain, from productions to the energy efficiency of cinemas and major festivals.
"I am convinced that what we cinema artists do and say can have an important weight in explaining these problems to people, to convince them to act", explains Claudia Cardinale in the preface to the book.