Green Thread (eBook)

Patrícia Vieira is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, comparative literature, and film and media studies at Georgetown University. Monica Gagliano is research associate professor of evolutionary ecology at the University of Western Australia.John Charles Ryan is postdoctoral research fellow in communications and arts at Edith Cowan University.

Introduction. Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano and John C. RyanSection I. Disseminating PlantsChapter 1. What’s Planted in the Event? On the Secret Life of a Philosophical Concept, Michael MarderChapter 2. Seeing Green: The Re-discovery of Plants and Nature’s Wisdom, Monica GaglianoChapter 3. Tolkien’s Sonic Trees and Perfumed Herbs: Plant Intelligence in Middle-earth, John Charles RyanChapter 4. What’s Talking? On the Nostalgic Epistemology of Plant Communication, Stefan RiegerChapter 5. “Wild Memory” as an Anthropocene Heuristic: Cultivating Ethical Paradigms for Galleries, Museums, and Seed Banks, Tom BristowSection II. Politicizing PlantsChapter 6. Preserving Plants in an Era of Extinction: Sentimental and Scientific Discourse in Mary Thacher Higginson’s “A Dying Race”, Jennifer SchellChapter 7. Laws of the Jungle: The Politics of Contestation in Cinema about the Amazon, Patrícia VieiraChapter 8. Monstrous Flora: Dangerous Cinematic Plants of the Cold War Era, Andrew HoweChapter 9. Once Upon a Time in Ombrosa: Italo Calvino and the Fabulist Pastoral, Gioia WoodsChapter 10. Vital Plants and Despicable Weeds in Ray Lawrence’s Lantana, Guinevere Narraway and Hannah StarkSection III. Performing PlantsChapter 11. Plant-Thinking with Film: Reed, Branch, Flower, Graig UhlinChapter 12. Shrubs and the City: Urban Nature in Rear Window, Pansy DuncanChapter 13. The Art of Human to Plant Interaction, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau, andFlorian WeilChapter 14. The English Garden Effect: Phyto-Performance, Abandoned Practices and Endangered Uses, Alan ReadContributors