Screening nature : : cinema beyond the human / / edited by Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway.

• TeilnehmendeR: Pick, Anat, 1955-; Narraway, Guinevere.
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Berghahn Books,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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. S

Table of Contents

Title page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Eco-poetics Film, Form and the Natural World ; 1 Three Worlds ; 2 Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools - Structure, Immanence and Eco-aesthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning's Land Films; 3 Land as Protagonist - An Interview with James Benning ; Part II Zoe-tropes Envisioning the Nonhuman ; 4 Anthropomorphism and Its Vicissitudes ; 5 Animism and the Performative Realist Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul ; 6 Was Blind But Now I See ; 7 Filming the Frozen South

Part III Eco-politics Environment, Image, Ideology 8 Dirty Pictures ; 9 Utopia in the Mud ; 10 Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of Nature ; 11 Buried Land ; Part IV Eco-praxis Film as Environmental Practice ; 12 Strange Seeing ; 13 The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration ; 14 An Inconvenient Truth ; 15 Planet in Focus ; Notes on Contributors ; Index