Film History for The Anthropocene - The Ecological Archive of German Cinema

By exploring German film history with the tools of the Environmental Humanities, this book offers a case study of the power of film within processes of environmental transformation.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Filmic Worlds, Creativity, and Materiality, or: Welcome to the Anthropocene?
PART I
1. Companions and Combatants (or, Hugs, Fights, and Bites): Curating Multispecies Environments in Die Geierwally
2. From Industrial Heimat to Bavarian Heimatfilm: Sprengbagger 1010, Hunger in Waldenburg, and the Consolidation of a Genre
PART II
3. Infrastructure in the Anthropo(s)cene: Fritz Lang's Metropolis as Ecological Archive
4. Image, Environment, Infrastructure: The Social Ecologies of the Bergfilm
5. Greenwashing in Black and White: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt, Die Stadt der Millionen, Menschen am Sonntag
Epilogue. Welcome Back: Reflexive Environments in Recent German Cinema
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Seth Peabody

Product details

• Authors: S. Peabody, Seth Peabody
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2023
• EAN: 9781640141612
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-161-2
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Screen Cultures: German Film a
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology