[Commlist] New Book - Cinematic Ecosystems: Screen Encounters with More-than-humans in the Era of Environmental Crisis

Mary Hegedus and Jessica Mulvogue are pleased to share that the edited 
collection /Cinematic Ecosystems: Screen Encounters with 
More-than-humans in the Era of Environmental Crisis 
<https://vernonpress.com/book/2428?srsltid=AfmBOor4h5vxWrPkV8YG-V1vNR3nqFmRfO22Qmrad41ek2u9gu-Eg6HO> 
/has been recently published with Vernon Press.

_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.


_Table of Contents:_

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Introduction to Cinematic Ecosystems - Mary Hegedus & Jessica Mulvogue

Part I. Histories of Cinematic Ecosystems: Materials, Elements, Substances

Chapter 1 ‘Please reseed.’ Camphor, Turpentine, and the Agrogeographies 
of Celluloid Cinema - Marek Jancovic

Chapter 2 Liquid Photogénie: Lotic Imaginings in La glace à trois faces 
- Samantha R. Sharp

Chapter 3 Toward a Situated Expanded Cinema: From Utopian Ecology to the 
Land-Based Practice of Lindsay McIntyre - Elio Della Noce

Chapter 4 Hallucinating Nature: Cinema, Psychedelics, Ecosystems- Graig 
Uhlin

Part II. More-than-Human Sounds and Sights
Chapter 5 Sonic Ecologies: Affective Ecocritique in Ana Vaz’s 
Image-Sound Relations - Emily Collins

Chapter 6 What We Come to See and Hear in Joshua Bonnetta’s The Two 
Sights (2020) - Christopher Pavsek

Chapter 7 All Things Breathing: Animation, Ecology, and Resistance in 
the Music Videos of Tanya Tagaq - Scott Birdwise

Chapter 8 Ending Soon: Planet Z - Crafting Climate Perception - Mary Hegedus

Part III. Giving Back the Land
Chapter 9 The Tiniest Place: Memory, Transcorporeality and Ecological 
Reclaiming in Tatiana Huezo’s El lugar más pequeño (2011) - Aarón Lacayo

Chapter 10 Alien Invasion and Multispecies Justice: Representations of 
Circumpolar Ecosystems in Contemporary Inuit Sci-Fi Horror Cinema - 
Jennifer Schell

Chapter 11 Flooded Spaces of Displacement: Dams and Memories of 
Ecological Emergency in Spanish Documentaries - Ariadna Cordal

Chapter 12 Fallow Land: Representing Rural Life in Spain Through 
Documentary Films - McKew Devitt

Part IV. Rethinking Ecological Relations in Practice and Spectatorship
Chapter 13 Leafing the Movie Theater - Zeke Saber

Chapter 14 Encountering Flying Foxes: Audience Response and Reckoning 
with Ecosystem Disruption in Australia - Melanie Ashe, Simon R. Troon, & 
Belinda Smaill

Chapter 15 Breaking the Species Divide: Entangled Empathy and 
Environmental Hope in The Olive Tree and My Octopus Teacher - Virginia 
Luzón-Aguado

Chapter 16 New Canadian Experimental Ecocinema: Placemaking, 
Immersiveness and Alternate Ecologies of Relationality in vulture, Phil 
Hoffman (2019); Geographies of Solitude, Jacquelyn Mills (2022); and 
Lichen, Lisa Jackson (2019) - Brenda Longfellow


Contact: (jsm38 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk) <mailto:(jsm38 /at/ st-andrews.ac.uk)>




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