[Commlist] New Book - Asian EcoMedia (Springer)

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New Book: Asian EcoMedia: Environmental Narratives in Film, Anime, TV 
and Video Games (Springer)
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We are delighted to announce the publication of our new edited volume 
with Springer:

Asian EcoMedia: Environmental Narratives in Film, Anime, TV and Video Games

Editors: Farshad Zahedi (UC3M) and Marta Lopera-Mármol (UOC)

Publisher: Springer

URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-95-8477-2 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-95-8477-2>

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-8477-2 
<https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-8477-2>


About the Book:

This volume offers a fresh and timely exploration of the intersections 
between ecology, media, and culture in Asian contexts, foregrounding 
audiovisual narratives and environmental themes embedded in the region’s 
media practices. Moving beyond conventional approaches that privilege 
purely aesthetic or socio-political frameworks, the book examines how 
Asian media creators engage with history, globalisation, power, and 
environmental crisis while articulating distinctive counter-narratives 
that challenge Western-centric and orientalist perspectives.

Spanning a broad geographical and thematic scope—including Japan, Korea, 
Thailand, Iran, Vietnam, China, and India—the collection brings together 
ecocinema studies, environmental humanities, postcolonial theory, and 
digital media studies. Combining theoretical interventions with rich 
case studies across film, anime, video games, K-dramas, reality TV, and 
VTuber performances, the volume centres Asian epistemologies to provide 
a comprehensive mapping of contemporary Asian ecomedia.



Table of Contents & Key Thematic Areas

Part I: Theoretical Frameworks & Techno-Ecologies:

Introduction — Farshad Zahedi and Marta Lopera-Mármol

Techno-Ecologies of /Terra Nullius/ Before and After History — Seán Cubitt

Part II: Ecocinema, Anime & Ecofeminism:

Thanato-Ecocinema and Death-Images in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 
and Grave of the Fireflies — Susana Viegas

Numinous Nature and Vibrant Forests: Ecological Gender Imaginaries in 
the Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Naomi Kawase — Ivan Pintor Iranzo, Manel 
Jiménez-Morales, and Marta Lopera-Mármol

Submergence and Resurgence: An Audiovisual Portrait of Vietnamese 
Ecofeminism in Nguyễn-Võ Nghiêm-Minh’s 2030 — Karen Lee Siu

Nature and Caste in Telugu Cinema — K. Samuel Moses Srinivas


Part III: Geopoetics, Extraction & Environmental Sensibilities:

Interbeing: Ecological Nondiscrimination and Its Mediatedness in /Snow 
Leopard/ — Victor Fan

Haptic Landscapes, Sick Bodies, and Ecological Sensibility in the Films 
of Apichatpong Weerasethakul — Ariadna Cordal and Alan Salvadó

(Un)Breathing the Air: Some Preliminary Thoughts on Visual Narratives of 
Air in Selected Chinese Urban Visual Texts — Winnie L. M. Yee

The Geopoetics of Land and Oil in Iranian Cinema — Farshad Zahedi


Part IV: Digital Media, Games & Popular Culture:

Collapsed Minds: Eco-Criticism Through Dilemmatic Situations in Minds 
Beneath Us — Mateo Terrasa-Torres and Alberto Porta-Pérez

Ecodystopian Narratives and Mechanics in NieR: Automata — Kim Martínez 
and Natalia Martínez-Pérez

Escaping to Nature, Running from Earth: The Diverging Ecologies in 
K-Dramas — Sara Muñoz Bautista

Governing Urbanites Through Green Reality TV: The Rise of Eco-Lifestyle 
Formats in China — Tania Lewis and Siyun Dong

Domestic Ecologies and the Aesthetics of Sufficiency: Rethinking 
Ecomedia Through VTuber Performances — Wei-Chih Wang


For full details, chapter access, and ordering information, please visit 
the Springer book page:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-95-8477-2 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-95-8477-2>

Contacts: Farshad Zahedi ((fzahedi /at/ hum.uc3m.es) 
<mailto:(fzahedi /at/ hum.uc3m.es)>)- Marta Lopera Marmól ((mloperama /at/ uoc.edu) 
<mailto:(mloperama /at/ uoc.edu)>)

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