[ecrea] New book: Transnational Ecocinema

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:

Transnational Ecocinema: Film Culture in an Era of Ecological Transformation

Edited by Tommy Gustafsson & Pietari Kääpä


About the book

Until recently, discussion of Hollywood film has dominated much of the 
contemporary dialogue on ecocriticism and the cinema. With Transnational 
Ecocinema, the editors open up the critical debate to look at a larger 
variety of films from several different countries and cultures. By 
foregrounding these films with their economic and political contexts, 
the contributors offer a simultaneously comprehensive and nuanced look 
at the role of place and nation in ecocinema. The essays also 
interrogate proposed global solutions to environmental issues by 
presenting an ecocritical perspective on different film and cultural 
considerations from around the globe with case studies ranging from 
China to Europe, from Hollywood to Latin America.



Contents

1. Introduction to transnational ecocinema

Introduction: film culture in an era of ecological transformation

Pietari Kääpä and Tommy Gustafsson

Transnational approaches to ecocinema: Charting an expansive field

Pietari Kääpä


2. Documentary politics and the ecological imagination

Water imagination in Chinese and Taiwanese documentaries

Tam Yee Lok

Paris, Shanxi: Jia Zhangke’s Useless and transcultural ecodocumentaries

Kiu-wai Chu

Ecocinema and ‘Good Life’ in Latin America

Roberto Forns

A reflection on the filmic contents of Earthlings, by Shaun Monson 
(2005) and Encounters at the End of the World, by Werner Herzog (2007).

Ilda Teresa de Castro


3. Popular cinemas and ecological awareness

Consumerist and ideological eco-imaginaries in the films of Feng Xiaogang

Neri Corrado

And the Oscar goes to: Eco-heroines, eco-heroes and the development of 
eco-themes from The China-Syndrome (1979) to GasLand (2010)

Tommy Gustafsson


4. The (in)sustainable footprint of ecocinema

On fear and agency: Public formations through climate change films

Inês Crespo and Ângela Guimarães Pereira

Guerrillas in the Mist: Popularising Ecologicalism and Sustainable 
Practices in Global Media from an Australian Base

Susan Ward & Rebecca Coyle

Afterword – Towards a transnational understanding of the Anthropocene

Tommy Gustafsson & Pietari Kääpä



About the editors

Tommy Gustafsson teaches Film History at the School of Language and 
Literature Cultural Sciences. He has previously published on masculinity 
and gender relations in Swedish film culture in the 1920s, and a number 
of articles in Swedish and English, on subjects such as the historical 
media memory of the Rwandan genocide, the function of biopics as 
mediators of the past (in Film International, also published by 
Intellect), and on black independent filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (Cinema 
Journal).



Pietari Kääpä is a postdoctoral research fellow at University of 
Helsinki. His research is focused on transnational concerns in a range 
of cultural contexts and thematic frameworks. His previously published 
work includes The Cinema of Mika Kaurismäki (2011) and the edited 
collections Directory of World Cinema: Finland (2012) and World Film 
Locations: Helsinki (2013). The monograph Ecology and Contemporary 
Nordic Cinema is due out from Continuum in early 2014.



About Intellect

Intellect publishes a diverse range of academic books and journals in 
the fields of film studies, creative practice and cultural & media studies.

Title info

Full title: Transnational Ecocinema: Film Culture in an Era of 
Ecological Transformation

Editors: Tommy Gustafsson, Pietari Kääpä

ISBN: 9781841507293 | Price: £24.95, $40

Published by: Intellect | Publication: May 2013

Binding: Paperback |Dimensions: 230x174 mm

Territory: World| Readership: General/Specialist



Also available as an ebook



--
Pietari Kääpä, Ph.D
School of Film and Television Studies
University of Helsinki
00014 Helsinki
Finland


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