Screening Nature

Cinema beyond the Human
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78238-226-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 594 g

Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed “posthuman cinema.” It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pick, Anat

Narraway, Guinevere

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Intersecting Ecology and Film

Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway

Part I: Eco-poetics: Film, Form, and the Natural World

Chapter 1. Three Worlds: Dwelling and Worldhood on Screen

Anat Pick

Chapter 2. Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Eco-aesthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning’s Land Films

Silke Panse

Chapter 3. Land as Protagonist – An Interview with James Benning

Silke Panse

Part II: Zoë-tropes: Envisioning the Nonhuman

Chapter 4. Anthropomorphism and Its Vicissitudes: Reflections on Homme-sick Cinema

James Leo Cahill

Chapter 5. Animism and the Performative Realist Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

May Adadol Ingawanij

Chapter 6. Was Blind But Now I See: Animal Liberation Documentaries’ Deconstruction of Barriers to Witnessing Injustice

Carrie Packwood Freeman and Scott Tulloch

Chapter 7. Filming the Frozen South: Animals in Early Antarctic Exploration Films

Elizabeth Leane and Steve Nicol

Part III: Eco-politics: Environment, Image, Ideology

Chapter 8. Dirty Pictures: Framing Pollution and Desire in ‘new New Queer Cinema’

Sophie Mayer

Chapter 9. Utopia in the Mud: Nature and Landscape in the Soviet Science Fiction Film

Elana Gomel

Chapter 10. Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of Nature

Claire Molloy

Chapter 11. Buried Land: Filming the Bosnian Pyramids

Steven Eastwood and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes    

Part IV: Eco-praxis: Film as Environmental Practice

Chapter 12. Strange Seeing: Re-viewing Nature in the Films of Rose Lowder

Guinevere Narraway

Chapter 13. The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration: Bae Yong-kyun’s Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East

Chia-Ju Chang

Chapter 14. An Inconvenient Truth: Science and Argumentation in the Expository Documentary Film

David Ingram

Chapter 15. Planet in Focus: Environmental Film Festivals

Kay Armatage

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Narraway, Guinevere
Guinevere Narraway lectures on cinema at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Her research focus is ecocriticism and moving image culture.

Pick, Anat
Anat Pick lectures in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Her book Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film was published by Columbia University Press (2011).

Anat Pick lectures in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Her book Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film was published by Columbia University Press (2011).