Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

Stephen Rust is a Senior Instructor of English at the University of Oregon. He is co-editor of Ecocinema Theory and Practice (2013) and Ecomedia: Key Issues (2016) and an advisory board member of Media+Environment and the Journal of Environmental Media. He has published several articles in the field and is currently writing an ecocritical analysis of Merchant Ivory Productions. Salma Monani is a Professor at Gettysburg College’s Environmental Studies department. She has extensively published on explorations of Indigenous ecomedia, film, and environmental justice, and is co-editor of three ecocritical media anthologies. She is currently writing a monograph on Indigenous Ecocinema. As part of her college’s Land Acknowledgment Committee, her scholarship also engages the practice of digital, public eco-humanities along with community research with Indigenous partners. Seán Cubitt is a Professor of Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne. His publications include The Cinema Effect (2004), Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies (2016), and Anecdotal Evidence: Ecocritique from Hollywood to the Mass Image (2020). Co-editor of Ecomedia: Key Issues (2016), and series editor for Leonardo Books, he researches the history and philosophy of media, ecopolitical aesthetics, media arts and technologies, and media art history.

Part 1: Ecocinema Materialities 1. Unsustainable cinema: global supply chains 2. Greening Mexican cinema 3. Energy and exhaustion in a coal melodrama: Kaala Patthar (1979) 4. The sustainable audiovisual industry in Catalonia seen through the Green Shooting initiative Part 2: 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: 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 3: Ecocinema Communities 10. Indigenous cosmologies and communities: the digital art of Johnathan Thunder and Missy Whiteman 11. Of toxic dust and sad places: ecochronicity and debility in Julio Hernández Cordón’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