FILM, LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT: LESSON OF SURVIVAL AND FAITH THROUGH OUR ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM IN ANG LEE’S LIFE OF PI (Pages 17-25) by Ms. T. Monika in THE ENGLISH INDIA / ISSN: 2321-1172 (Online); 2347-2634 (Print)

Our ecological system is build up with many factors which are correlated with each other. As a human being we learn many things through nature and on the same time it‟s our duty in saving our ecological system. Now-a-days, we can see a variety of films that conveys ecological awareness for the audiences. „Film and visual media are among the growth industries for Ecocriticism, and for „green cultural studies‟ more broadly. Thinking about films ecocritically involves not only examining representations of nature, or of human-nature relations, within films; it must also involve examine the film medium itself, including the production, distribution and consumption of films and the by-products generated at each step of this life cycle. Classical Ecocritical concepts such as “wilderness” and “dwelling” come effectively into dialogue with the work of Ang lee. The Life of Pi(2012) is a special effects tale about our human encounter with nonhuman “others” in a watery wilderness that challenges any notions of anthropogenic(that is, technological) mastery‟.(Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies) Key-words: Environment, Faith, Survival, Human-Animal bond