Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

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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. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Cut to Green: Tracking the Growth of Ecocinema Studies PART I: Ecocinema Materialities 1 Unsustainable Cinema Global Supply Chains 2 Greening Mexican Cinema 3 Energy and Exhaustion in a Coal Melodrama 4 The Sustainable Audiovisual Industry in Catalonia Seen through the Green Shooting Initiative PART II: Ecocinema Discourses 5 Extraction and Wild Cinema in Africa 6 Polytemporality in the Slow Ecocinema of Lav Diaz An Installation in a Trauma Field 7 Exploring SF Ecocinema Ideologies of Gender, Infrastructure, and US/China Dynamics in Interstellar and The Wandering Earth 8 Keaton’s Chimera, or the Comic Assemblage of Mountains 9 The Matrix of Ecomedia Fan Worlds as Environments PART III: Ecocinema Communities 10 Indigenous Cosmologies and Communities The Digital Art of Jonathan Thunder and Missy Whiteman 11 Of Toxic Dust and Sad Places Ecochronicity and Debility in Julio Hernández Cordnón’s Polvo (Dust, 2012) 12 Indigenous Post-Apocalyptic Filmmaking at Standing Rock 13 Blurry Streams The Pandemic Film Festival 14 Seeing Locally, Expressing Globally Participatory Filmmaking and Aesthetics Afterword: The Sequel-Effect Index