Ecocinema Theory and Practice

Rust, Stephen; Monani, Salma; Cubitt, Seán

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“…Academic conferences (e.g., "Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene") have considered the complicated relationships among the anthropocene, the wild, humans, and animals. Documentaries featuring harm to animals have heralded the birth of a new domain in film studies encompassing "ecocinema" and "popular green criminology" (Rust, Monani, and Cubitt 2013;Kohm and Greenhill 2013).…”

Section: Green Cultural Criminology and The Age Of The 'Anthropocene'mentioning

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Video Methods, Green Cultural Criminology, and the Anthropocene: SANCTUARY as a Case Study

Redmon

2018

Deviant Behavior

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Section: Green Cultural Criminology and The Age Of The 'Anthropocene'mentioning

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Video Methods, Green Cultural Criminology, and the Anthropocene: SANCTUARY as a Case Study

Redmon

2018

Deviant Behavior

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“…In the past few years ecocinema studies has exploded as a vibrant field of interdisciplinary inquiry. In doing so, the field has shifted its focus to all films, not just ones that intend an environmental message (Rust et al 2012;Pick and Narraway 2013).…”

Section: Ecocinema Studies As Primermentioning

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Eco-nostalgia in popular Turkish cinema

Özdemirci¹,

Monani

2015

Ecomedia

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Book Summary: Ecomedia: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook introducing the burgeoning field of ecomedia studies to provide an overview of the interface between environmental issues and the media globally. Linking the world of media production, distribution, and consumption to environmental understandings, the book addresses ecological meanings encoded in media texts, the environmental impacts of media production, and the relationships between media and cultural perceptions of the environment.

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“…Since the late 1990s the burgeoning field of ecocriticism has been analyzing the potential of environmental film and literature, including apocalyptic visions, for consciousnessraising that might inculcate a sense of planetary care (Rust et al 2013). The prescriptive moral tone of some progressive ecocritical readings and the assumed link between consuming a proenvironmental vision and a more enlightened planetary citizenry are, of course, naïve to say the least (Buell 2003;Hulme 2008).…”

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When Horses Won't Eat: Apocalypse and the Anthropocene

Ginn¹

2015

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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In this article I suggest that fantasies of apocalypse are both a product and a producer of the Anthropocene. While images and narratives of contemporary environmental apocalypse have usually been understood as politically regressive and post-political distractions, I demonstrate that a more hopeful reading is possible. Apocalypse tells us that the Human as currently configured in the Anthropocene -an ideal universal subject who is energized through fossil fuels and who has been elevated to a position of ecological mastery -cannot continue indefinitely. This article therefore considers what apocalyptic imaginaries reveal about the limits to being human and the future of human life after the Anthropocene. It does so by analyzing a critically-acclaimed film, The Turin Horse (2011). In this film an old farm horse refuses to eat, drink, or leave its stall, while a daughter and her father struggle on through an unspecified disaster, gnawing on raw potatoes as their world slowly unravels. The Turin Horse discloses the earth forces that have made Anthropocene humans along three lines: the geological, the biological, and the temporal. The film also hints at three challenges to be overcome to make humans differently: the need to surpass carbon humanity; the need for nonhuman allies; and the need to affirm agency against the inevitability of deep time. I suggest that contemporary apocalyptic visions are a core aspect of how geographers should understand socio-ecological transformation, since they challenge those who view them to feel the condition of the Anthropocene, and pose the question of how to respond well to unruly earth forces.

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Ecocinema Theory and Practice

Cited by 119 publications

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Video Methods, Green Cultural Criminology, and the Anthropocene: SANCTUARY as a Case Study

Video Methods, Green Cultural Criminology, and the Anthropocene: SANCTUARY as a Case Study

Eco-nostalgia in popular Turkish cinema

When Horses Won't Eat: Apocalypse and the Anthropocene

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