Ecocinema theory and practice
By: edited by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, and Sean Cubitt
Series: AFI film readers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780415899420; 9780415899437; 9780203106051
Subjects: Motion pictures; Ecocriticism; Documentary films; Environmental protection and motion pictures; Environmentalism in motion pictures; History and criticism; Ecology in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cuts to dissolves: defining and situating ecocinema studies / Stephen Rust and Salma Monani; title: Ecocinema theory. The eco-cinema experience / Scott MacDonald; title: The aesthetics and ethics of eco-film criticism / David Ingram; title: Ecocinema and ideology: do ecocritics dream of a clockwork green? / Andrew Hageman; title: An ecophilosophy of the moving image: cinema as anthrobiogeomorphic machine / Adrian Ivakhiv; title: Ecocinema practice: wildlife and documentary Film. Penguins are good to think with: wildlife films, the imaginary shaping of nature, and environmental politics / Luis Vivanco; title: Working with animals: regarding companion species in documentary film / Jennifer Ladino; title: Beyond fluidity: a cultural history of cinema under water / Nicole Starosielski; title: Nature writes the screenplays: commercial wildlife films and ecological entertainment / Claire Molloy; title: Ecocinema practice: Hollywood and fictional film. Hollywood and climate change / Stephen Rust; title: Appreciating the views: filming nature in Into the wild, Grizzly man, and Into the West / Pat Brereton; title: Sympathy for the devil: the cannibalistic hillbilly in 1970s rural slasher films / Carter Soles; title: Beyond film. Environmental film festivals: beginning explorations at the intersections of film festival studies and ecocinema studies / Salma Monani; title: Everyone knows this is nowhere: data visualization and ecocriticism / Sean Cubitt.