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Introduction - melodrama and environmental crisis. Part 1 Wilderness inHollywood cinema: discourses of nature and environmentalism; thecinematography of natural landscapes; gender and the encounter withwilderness; ecological Indians and the myth of primal purity; gender, raceand the politics of the Amazonian rain forests. Part 2 Wild animals inHollywood cinema: endangered species and the North American anti-huntingnarrative; North American ocean mammals; the wolf and the bear; Africananimals from safari to conservation. Part 3 Development and the politics ofland use: the country and the city; automobile culture; the risks of nuclearenergy. Conclusion.