Author Ila Tyagi

Ila Tyagi

Ila Tyagi is a Ph.D. student in American and Film and Media Studies at Yale. She received an English Literature A.B. and an American Studies M.A. from Brown and Columbia. Her research focuses on the American oil industry in moving images. She grew up in India and Kuwait.

Evaluating Ecocinema: Green Documentary: Environmental Documentary in the Twenty-First Century, by Helen Hughes

September 2014

In this clearly written and structured work, Helen Hughes offers us the first book-length survey of the eco-conscious documentaries that crammed theatres in the first decade of the new millennium. The films she...