Ecocinema Theory and Practice

This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research.

Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three sections around the themes of cinematic materialities, discourses, and communities, the volume explores a variety of topics within ecocinema studies from examining specific national and indigenous film contexts to discussing ecojustice, environmental production studies, film festivals, and political ecology. The breadth of the contributions exemplifies how ecocinema scholars worldwide have sought to overcome the historical legacy of binary thinking and intellectual norms and are working to champion new ecocritical, intersectional, decolonial, queer, feminist, Indigenous, vitalist, and other emergent theories and cinematic practices. The collection also demonstrates the unique ways that cinema studies scholarship is actively addressing environmental injustice and the climate crisis.

This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of ecocritical film and media studies, production studies, cultural studies, and environmental studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Stephen Rust is a Senior Instructor of English at the University of Oregon. He is co-editor of Ecocinema Theory and Practice (2013) and Ecomedia: Key Issues (2016) and an advisory board member of Media+Environment and the Journal of Environmental Media. He has published several articles in the field and is currently writing an ecocritical analysis of Merchant Ivory Productions.

Salma Monani is a Professor at Gettysburg College’s Environmental Studies department. She has extensively published on explorations of Indigenous ecomedia, film, and environmental justice, and is co-editor of three ecocritical media anthologies. She is currently writing a monograph on Indigenous Ecocinema. As part of her college’s Land Acknowledgment Committee, her scholarship also engages the practice of digital, public eco-humanities along with community research with Indigenous partners.

Seán Cubitt is a Professor of Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne. His publications include The Cinema Effect (2004), Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies (2016), and Anecdotal Evidence: Ecocritique from Hollywood to the Mass Image (2020). Co-editor of Ecomedia: Key Issues (2016), and series editor for Leonardo Books, he researches the history and philosophy of media, ecopolitical aesthetics, media arts and technologies, and media art history.