{"product_id":"screening-nature-cinema-beyond-the-human-9781800739413","title":"Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tEnvironmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. \u003cem\u003eScreening Nature\u003c\/em\u003e is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed “posthuman cinema.” It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. \u003cem\u003eScreening Nature\u003c\/em\u003e offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"The writers here make you see the world inside and outside of the cinema anew. Screening Nature contains ideas that are as varied and colourful as birds' feathers. This is an important book that pushes cinema forward.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  Apichatpong Weerasethakul\u003c\/strong\u003e, winner of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\"From Avatar to Zen, this remarkable collection of essays goes everywhere in the contemporary film environment to discover remarkable things about what that medium can tell us about ecology. It's fully cognizant of philosophical and theoretical developments in the field, generously global in scope and inclusive of the myriad nonhumans who coexist with us and our films.\"\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTimothy Morton\u003c\/strong\u003e, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Intersecting Ecology and Film\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnat Pick and Guinevere Narraway\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Eco-poetics: Film, Form, and the Natural World\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Three Worlds: Dwelling and Worldhood on Screen\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnat Pick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Ten Skies\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e13 Lakes\u003c\/em\u003e, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Eco-aesthetics in \u003cem\u003eThe Swimmer\u003c\/em\u003e and James Benning’s Land Films\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSilke Panse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Land as Protagonist – An Interview with James Benning\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSilke Panse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Zoë-tropes: Envisioning the Nonhuman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Anthropomorphism and Its Vicissitudes: Reflections on Homme-sick Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJames Leo Cahill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Animism and the Performative Realist Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMay Adadol Ingawanij\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Was Blind But Now I See: Animal Liberation Documentaries’ Deconstruction of Barriers to Witnessing Injustice\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCarrie Packwood Freeman and Scott Tulloch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Filming the Frozen South: Animals in Early Antarctic Exploration Films\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eElizabeth Leane and Steve Nicol\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Eco-politics: Environment, Image, Ideology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dirty Pictures: Framing Pollution and Desire in ‘new New Queer Cinema’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSophie Mayer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Utopia in the Mud: Nature and Landscape in the Soviet Science Fiction Film\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eElana Gomel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of Nature\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eClaire Molloy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Buried Land\u003c\/em\u003e: Filming the Bosnian Pyramids\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSteven Eastwood and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes    \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: Eco-praxis: Film as Environmental Practice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Strange Seeing: Re-viewing Nature in the Films of Rose Lowder\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGuinevere Narraway\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration: Bae Yong-kyun’s \u003cem\u003eWhy Has Bodhidharma Left for the East\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChia-Ju Chang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e An Inconvenient Truth\u003c\/em\u003e: Science and Argumentation in the Expository Documentary Film\u003cbr\u003e \tDavid Ingram\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/strong\u003e Planet in Focus: Environmental Film Festivals\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKay Armatage\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default 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