Resisting Exploitation: A Study of Karen Warren’s Ecofeminist Ethics in Harish Ram’s Movie Thumbaa
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Ecocinema, Ecofeminism, Nature, OppressionAbstract
The pen is mightier than the sword", but the film is faster than the Book. Yes, Cinema reaches the masses more immediately than books. Nowadays, movies are meant for edutainment that makes us learn and live appositely. This paper takes the emerging genre of Cinema, Ecocinema, to explicate the role of media in spreading the truth about the environment to the mass audience. In philosophy, Ecofeminism is a branch of feminism coined by French feminist Francoise d'Eaubonne in 1974. Eaubonne identified the link between the oppression of women and the oppression of the Earth as the fundamental cause of the environmental crisis. This research aims to study the undervalued state of women and others in nature with reference to Warren's eight features of ecofeminist ethics in Harish Ram L’s Thumbaa (2019). Through this paper, the researchers try to prove that the media takes the initiative to screen humans' reality and responsibilities towards nature through the paws of Ecofeminism in the movie Thumbaa.
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