Cinema Of/for the Anthropocene - Affect, Ecology, and More-Than-Human Kinship

Cinema of/for the Anthropocene sheds light on the question of how films can allow us to resituate ourselves within what is known today as the Anthropocene. The authors address this question through a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives.

List of contents

1. Chapter 1: Thinking Cinema of/for the Anthropocene: An Introduction, 2. Chapter 2: A Film History of Utter Rebellion: Dewesternizing Film Studies for the Chthulucene, 3.Chapter 3: Willful Aesthetics: Pedagogies of Exposure in Animated Short Film, 4. Chapter 4: Envisioning Intergenerational Justice: Hope, Despair, and Transformative Action in Climate Change Films, 5. Chapter 5: Take Back the Walk: Trekking and Female Empowerment in Wild and Tracks, 6. Chapter 6: Between Manipulation and Catharsis: Media Life in the Anthropocene, 7. Chapter 7: Collaborative Making, not Taking: Nova Paul Exposes Cinema's Material Roots, 8. Chapter 8: Land Agency and the Animacy of Stories in Danis Goulet's and Amanda Strong's Short Films, 9. Chapter 9: New Animism and Shamanic Cinema: Human-Animal-Machine Interactions, 10. Chapter 10: Being (with) Animals: Human-Horse Relations, Gender and Queer/Trans Embodiment in Barbara Hammer's A Horse Is Not a Metaphor and Ann Oren's Passage, 11. Chapter 11: Biological Imagination, Critical Environmentalism, and Anthropocene in Annihilation, 12. Chapter 12: Inhabiting a Viral Culture

About the author

Katarzyna Paszkiewicz is an Associate Professor in English and Film Studies at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. Andrea Ruthven is an Associate Professor in English at the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain.

Summary

Cinema of/for the Anthropocene sheds light on the question of how films can allow us to resituate ourselves within what is known today as the Anthropocene. The authors address this question through a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Katarzyna Ruthven Paszkiewicz
• Assisted by: Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (Editor), Andrea Ruthven (Editor), Ruthven Andrea (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032746357
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3274635-7
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary, Documentary films, Applied ecology, Humanities, Social and cultural history, Social impact of environmental issues, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Holocene epoch