
Cinematic Ecosystems
Screen Encounters with More-than-Humans in the Era of Environmental Crisis
Series in Cinema and Culture (Publisher)
Published on 24. March 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
390 pages
979-8-8819-0445-6 (ISBN)
Description
Motivated by the exigency of climate change, 'Cinematic Ecosystems: Screen Encounters with More-than-Humans in the Era of Environmental Crisis' takes cinema to be an audiovisual form whose creation and meaning are deeply connected to more-than-human worlds. As part of the third wave of ecocinema studies, this collection gathers contributions on multiple cinema forms from an international group of scholars and artists who offer diverse, critical perspectives that respond to the question: How does cinema help or hinder us in coming to know the more-than-human world?
The collection homes in on the concept of the ecosystem as a biological and technological system that comprises a network of inter-relational living and their inanimate elemental affordances to explore encounters with cinema as a material object and practice, a spectatorial experience, and a representational text. The chapters cover environmental topics that span five continents and multiple histories. This book will be of special interest to film studies scholars and artists interested in cinema and climate change, environmental justice, and posthumanism.
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Language
English
Publishing group
Vernon Press
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
563 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-8819-0445-6 (9798881904456)
Schweitzer Classification