Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvii, 249 pp.
"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." (Publisher description)
Introduction. Cut to Green: Tracking the Growth of Ecocinema Studies / Stephen Rust, Salma Monani and Seán Cubitt, 1
PART I. ECOCINEMA MATERIALITIES
1 Unsustainable Cinema: Global Supply Chains / Seán Cubitt, 19
2 Greening Mexican Cinema / Carolyn Fornoff, 34
3 Energy and Exhaustion in a Coal Melodrama: Kaala Patthar (1979) / Debashree Mukherjee, 52
4 The Sustainable Audiovisual Industry in Catalonia Seen through the Green Shooting Initiative / Marta Lopera-Mármol and Manel Jiménez-Morales, 70
PART II: ECOCINEMA DISCOURSES
5 Extraction and Wild Cinema in Africa / Cajetan Iheka, 87
6 Polytemporality in the Slow Ecocinema of Lav Diaz: An Installation in a Trauma Field / Elio Garcia, 103
7 Exploring SF Ecocinema: Ideologies of Gender, Infrastructure, and US/China Dynamics in Interstellar and The Wandering Earth / Andrew Hageman and Regina Kanyu Wang, 118
8 Keaton's Chimera, or the Comic Assemblage of Mountains / Christian Quendler, 135
9 The Matrix of Ecomedia: Fan Worlds as Environments / Anthony Lioi, 149
PART III: ECOCINEMA COMMUNITIES
10 Indigenous Cosmologies and Communities: The Digital Art of Jonathan Thunder and Missy Whiteman / Angelica Lawson, 167
11 Of Toxic Dust and Sad Places: Ecochronicity and Debility in Julio Hernández Cordoìn's Polvo (Dust, 2012) / Aarón Lacayo, 182
12 Indigenous Post-Apocalyptic Filmmaking at Standing Rock / Emily Roehl, 195
13 Blurry Streams: The Pandemic Film Festival / Mila Zuo, 209
14 Seeing Locally, Expressing Globally: Participatory Filmmaking and Aesthetics / Mariam Abazeri, 228
Afterword: The Sequel Effect / Jennifer Fay, 241
PART I. ECOCINEMA MATERIALITIES
1 Unsustainable Cinema: Global Supply Chains / Seán Cubitt, 19
2 Greening Mexican Cinema / Carolyn Fornoff, 34
3 Energy and Exhaustion in a Coal Melodrama: Kaala Patthar (1979) / Debashree Mukherjee, 52
4 The Sustainable Audiovisual Industry in Catalonia Seen through the Green Shooting Initiative / Marta Lopera-Mármol and Manel Jiménez-Morales, 70
PART II: ECOCINEMA DISCOURSES
5 Extraction and Wild Cinema in Africa / Cajetan Iheka, 87
6 Polytemporality in the Slow Ecocinema of Lav Diaz: An Installation in a Trauma Field / Elio Garcia, 103
7 Exploring SF Ecocinema: Ideologies of Gender, Infrastructure, and US/China Dynamics in Interstellar and The Wandering Earth / Andrew Hageman and Regina Kanyu Wang, 118
8 Keaton's Chimera, or the Comic Assemblage of Mountains / Christian Quendler, 135
9 The Matrix of Ecomedia: Fan Worlds as Environments / Anthony Lioi, 149
PART III: ECOCINEMA COMMUNITIES
10 Indigenous Cosmologies and Communities: The Digital Art of Jonathan Thunder and Missy Whiteman / Angelica Lawson, 167
11 Of Toxic Dust and Sad Places: Ecochronicity and Debility in Julio Hernández Cordoìn's Polvo (Dust, 2012) / Aarón Lacayo, 182
12 Indigenous Post-Apocalyptic Filmmaking at Standing Rock / Emily Roehl, 195
13 Blurry Streams: The Pandemic Film Festival / Mila Zuo, 209
14 Seeing Locally, Expressing Globally: Participatory Filmmaking and Aesthetics / Mariam Abazeri, 228
Afterword: The Sequel Effect / Jennifer Fay, 241
