Screening Nature : Cinema Beyond the Human

• Main Authors: Pick, Anat, Narraway, Guinevere
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Berghahn Books 2013; Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Edition: 1
• Series: Berghahn on film
• Subjects: APFA; Book Industry Communication; Cultural and media studies; Cultural studies; Ecology in motion pictures; Environmental films; Environmental protection and motion pictures; Environmentalism in motion pictures; Film & Video; Film history, theory or criticism; Film Studies; Film theory & criticism; Film, TV & radio; Films, cinema; History & Criticism; History and criticism; JBCC1 Popular culture; JFCA; Nature films; Nature in motion pictures; Performing Arts; Popular Culture; Social Science; Society & culture: general; Society & social sciences; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; The Arts; thema EDItEUR
• ISBN: 1800732953; 9781800732957; 9781782382263; 1782382267; 1782382275; 9781782382270
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782382270

Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature 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. Screening Nature 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.