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

Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Foreword. “Created to Dream”: The Voices and Visions of Cinema of/for the Anthropocene
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Thinking Cinema of/for the Anthropocene: An Introduction
	The Anthropocene: Too Early, Too Late?
	Beyond the Apocalypse: Affect, Ecology, and More-Than-Human Kinship
	Films of/for the Anthropocene
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part 1: Affect, Ecology, and Pedagogies of Worldly Reciprocity
	Chapter 2: A Film History of Utter Rebellion: Dewesternizing Film Studies for the Chthulucene
		Decolonizing the Curriculum
		Uncontained Digital Archives
		Kill or Kin?
		Anti-Colonial Phalke?
		The Aesthetics of Relationality
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 3: Willful Aesthetics: Pedagogies of Exposure in Animated Short Film
		Introduction: Responding to Film Exposure and Habituation
		Willful Aesthetics
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 4: Envisioning Intergenerational Justice: Hope, Despair, and Transformative Action in Climate Change Films
		Driving Change: Critical Hope, Slow Hope, and Transformative Action
		Critical Hope and the Courage of Despair: Youth Climate Activism in Jim Rakete’s Now
		From Hopeful Visions to Actual Change: Engaged Filmmaking and Transformative Action
		Slow Hope and Voluntary Sufficiency in Being the Change
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 5: Take Back the Walk: Trekking and Female Empowerment in Wild and Tracks
		Introduction
		Walking and Trekking as Gendered Practices
		Women and Adventure Narratives
			Wild
			Tracks
		Conclusion
		Funding
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 6: Between Manipulation and Catharsis: Living a Life in the Mediated Anthropocene
		Introduction
		Media Life and the Anthropocene
		Studying (and Living In) Media and the Anthropocene
		The Truman Show and a Media Life
		A Life in Media and the Anthropocene: Insights from The Truman Show
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part 2: More-Than-Human Kinship, Hybridity, and Monstrous
Alliances
	Chapter 7: Collaborative Making, Not Taking: Nova Paul Exposes Cinema’s Material Roots
		Introduction
		Indigenous-Oriented Objections to the Anthropocene and New Materialisms
		Exhibiting Cinema’s Material Dynamism: Ngā Pūrākau Nō Ngā Rākau
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgement
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 8: Land Agency and the Animacy of Stories in Danis Goulet’s and Amanda Strong’s Short Films
		Introduction
			Wakening
			Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes)
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 9: New Animism and Shamanic Cinema: Human–Animal–Machine Interactions
		Dreams of Hybridity: Project Nim
		Shamanic Cinema: Tropical Malady and Gente Pájaro. Che Uñüm
		Human–Animal–Machine Interactions: Agrilogistics
		Notes
		Works Cited
	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
		The Gendering of Animals in Experimental Film
		Being with Horses in A Horse Is Not a Metaphor
		Becoming Horse in Passage
		Conclusion
		Funding
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 11: Biological Imagination, Critical Environmentalism, and Anthropocene in Annihilation
		Introduction
		The Encounter with the Shimmer: Fluid Nature and “Monstruous” Hybridization
		The End or Triumph of Nature as Alterity? Diverging Scenarios
			Between Cinematic Psychodrama and Bodysnatching
			… back to the onto-ethical problematic
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	Chapter 12: Inhabiting a Viral Culture
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Works Cited/Consulted
Index