Eco-Trauma Cinema

Anil Narine is a junior faculty member in the Department of Visual Studies and the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology at the University of Toronto. In 2008 he was a visiting research student in the School of History of Art, Film, and Visual Media, at Birkbeck College, University of London, and in 2011-2012 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Film at Columbia University. His research examines network theory and trauma theory in the context of globalization and thickening global connections. His publications appear in Communication, Culture & Critique, Critical Studies in Media Communication, the Journal of American Studies, Americana, Memory Studies and Theory, Culture & Society.

Introduction: Eco-Trauma Cinema Anil Narine 1. Evolution, Extinction and the Eco-trauma Film: Darwin’s Nightmare (2004) and A Zed & Two Naughts (1986) Barbara Creed 2. Trauma, Truth, and the Environmental Documentary Charles Musser 3. Great Southern Wounds: The Trauma of Australian Cinema Mark Steven 4. Into the Wilde?: Art, Technologically-Mediated Kinship, and the Lethal Indifference of Nature in Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man Alf Seegert 5. The Dangers of Bio-security: The Host (2006) and the Geopolitics of Outbreak Hsuan L. Hsu 6. Biting Back: America, Nature and Feminism in Teeth Roland Finger 7. The Spirits of Globalization: Masochistic Ecologies in Fabrice du Welz’s Vinyan Georgiana Banita 8. Love in the Times of Ecocide: Environmental Trauma and Comic Relief in Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E Alexa Weik von Mossner 9. Eavesdropping in The Cove: Interspecies Ethics, Public and Private Space, and Trauma under Water Janet Walker 10. Cooling the Geopolitical to Warm the Ecological: How Human-Induced Warming Phenomena Transformed Modern Horror Christopher Justice 11. Toxic Media: On the Ecological Impact of Cinema Sean Cubitt