Ecocinema theory and practice. 2

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the themes of cinematic materialities, discourses, and communities, the volume explores a variety of topics within ecocinema studies from examining specific national and indigenous film contexts to discussing ecojustice, environmental production studies, film festivals, and political ecology. The breadth of the contributions exemplifies how ecocinema scholars worldwide have sought to overcome the historical legacy of binary thinking and intellectual norms and are working to champion new ecocritical, intersectional, decolonial, queer, feminist, Indigenous, vitalist, and other emergent theories and cinematic practices. The collection also demonstrates the unique ways that cinema studies scholarship is actively addressing environmental injustice and the climate crisis. This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of ecocritical film and media studies, production studies, cultural studies, and environmental studies. This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Dedication 6 Table of Contents 8 List of figures 12 List of contributors 14 Acknowledgments 18 Introduction Cut to Green: Tracking the Growth of Ecocinema Studies 20 PART I: Ecocinema Materialities 36 1 Unsustainable Cinema Global Supply Chains 38 2 Greening Mexican Cinema 53 3 Energy and Exhaustion in a Coal Melodrama 71 4 The Sustainable Audiovisual Industry in Catalonia Seen through the Green Shooting Initiative 89 PART II: Ecocinema Discourses 104 5 Extraction and Wild Cinema in Africa 106 6 Polytemporality in the Slow Ecocinema of Lav Diaz An Installation in a Trauma Field 122 7 Exploring SF Ecocinema Ideologies of Gender, Infrastructure, and US/China Dynamics in Interstellar and The Wandering Earth 137 8 Keaton’s Chimera, or the Comic Assemblage of Mountains 154 9 The Matrix of Ecomedia Fan Worlds as Environments 168 PART III: Ecocinema Communities 184 10 Indigenous Cosmologies and Communities The Digital Art of Jonathan Thunder and Missy Whiteman 186 11 Of Toxic Dust and Sad Places Ecochronicity and Debility in Julio Hernández Cordnón’s Polvo (Dust, 2012) 201 12 Indigenous Post-Apocalyptic Filmmaking at Standing Rock 214 13 Blurry Streams The Pandemic Film Festival 228 14 Seeing Locally, Expressing Globally Participatory Filmmaking and Aesthetics 247 Afterword: The Sequel-Effect 260 Index 266 Environmental,Film;,Environmental,Cinema;,Environmentalism;,Ecology;,Ecocriticism;,Ecomedia;,Climate,Justice;,Activism;,Sustainability;,Labour;,Production,Studies;,Postcolonial;,Decolonial;,Indigenous;,Feminism;,Community;,Temporality;,Affect;,Materiality Environmental Film,Environmental Cinema,Environmentalism,Ecology,Ecocriticism,Ecomedia,Climate Justice,Activism,Sustainability,Labour,Production Studies,Postcolonial,Decolonial,Indigenous,Feminism,Community,Temporality,Affect,Materiality Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema's intersections with environmental understandings. It references seminal readings through cutting edge research and is designed as an introduction to the field as well as a sourcebook. It defines ecocinema studies, sketches its development over the past twenty years, provides theoretical frameworks for moving forward, and presents eloquent examples of the practice of eco-film criticism through essays written by the field's leading and emerging scholars. From explicitly environmental films such as Werner Herzong's Grizzly Man and Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow to less obvious examples like Errol Morris's Fast, Cheap & Out of Control and Christopher Nolan's Inception, the pieces in this collection comprehensively interrogate the breadth of ecocinema. Ecocinema Theory and Practice also directs readers to further study through lists of recommended readings, professional organizations, and relevant periodicals. -- Amazon.com This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies has matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research.