Disappearances

Fessenden, Tracy

doi:10.1215/9780822388890-007

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“…The very talkative animals do not refer to ‘global warming,’ but they do note the changes and some have had direct experience of the oil that is causing the warming. Two other films in this group represent the horror genre: The Last Winter (2006) and The Thaw (2009) . The first tells the story of a small group of workers stationed on Alaska's tundra as they lay the groundwork for the next season of oil exploration.…”

Section: The Filmsmentioning

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Cli‐fi on the screen(s): patterns in the representations of climate change in fictional films

Svoboda

2015

WIREs Climate Change

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Fictional works about climate change, or cli‐fi, have been hailed as a new genre. As a complement to previous WIREs studies of novels and plays, this article focuses on cli‐fi films, providing an overview of some 60 films, including major theatrical releases, smaller festival films, and made‐for‐TV movies. Of the many possible impacts of climate change predicted by scientists, this study finds that filmmakers have focused on extreme weather events and the possibility of Earth slipping into a new ice age. These choices reflect filmmakers’ predispositions more than any scientific consensus and thus demonstrate the challenge that cli‐fi films pose to climate change communicators. Finally, noting the recent emergence of films that parody concerns about climate change or that depict attempts to mitigate its causes or ameliorate its effects as possibly more disastrous than climate change itself, this study recommends that researchers in the humanities and social sciences look beyond The Day After Tomorrow, which has received far more attention than any other film. WIREs Clim Change 2016, 7:43–64. doi: 10.1002/wcc.381 This article is categorized under: Trans‐Disciplinary Perspectives > Humanities and the Creative Arts

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Section: The Filmsmentioning

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Cli‐fi on the screen(s): patterns in the representations of climate change in fictional films

Svoboda

2015

WIREs Climate Change

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“…Heterocylic nitrogen compounds are called alkaloids. The first medically useful alkaloid was morphine, isolated in 1805 from Paver somniferum (opium poppy) ( 27 ). The name morphine comes form the Greek word Morpheus, which means ‘god of dreams’.…”

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Therapeutic Potential of Plants as Anti‐Microbials for Drug Discovery

Samy

Gopalakrishnakone

2008

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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The uses of traditional medicinal plants for primary health care have steadily increased worldwide in recent years. Scientists are in search of new phytochemicals that could be developed as useful anti-microbials for treatment of infectious diseases. Currently, out of 80% of pharmaceuticals derived from plants, very few are now being used as anti-microbials. Plants are rich in a wide variety of secondary metabolites that have found anti-microbial properties. This review highlights the current status of traditional medicine, its contribution to modern medicine, recent trends in the evaluation of anti-microbials with a special emphasis upon some tribal medicine, in vitro and in vivo experimental design for screening, and therapeutic efficacy in safety and human clinical trails for commercial outlet. Many of these commercially available compounds are crude preparations administered without performing human clinical trials. Recent methods are useful to standardize the extraction for scientific investigation of new phytochemicals and anti-microbials of traditionally used plants. It is concluded that once the local ethnomedical preparations of traditional sources are scientifically evaluated before dispensing they should replace existing drugs commonly used for the therapeutic treatment of infection. This method should be put into practice for future investigations in the field of ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, ethnobotany and other biological fields for drug discovery.

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Interrogating the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Will Herberg’s Construction of American Religion, Religious Pluralism, and the Problem of Inclusion

Levitt¹,

Stein²

2009

The Cambridge History of Religions in America

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Disappearances

Cited by 4 publications

References 111 publications

Cli‐fi on the screen(s): patterns in the representations of climate change in fictional films

Cli‐fi on the screen(s): patterns in the representations of climate change in fictional films

Therapeutic Potential of Plants as Anti‐Microbials for Drug Discovery

Interrogating the Judeo-Christian Tradition: Will Herberg’s Construction of American Religion, Religious Pluralism, and the Problem of Inclusion

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