Ecodocumentaries: Critical Essays

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction: The Ethics of Relationships in Social Documentaries....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
 In God’s Land: Cinematic Affect, Animation, and the Perceptual Dilemmas of Slow Violence....Pages 11-31
Transnational Perspectives on Land Ethics: Elemental and Not My Land ....Pages 33-50
Communal Indian Farming and Food Ecology: A Reading of Timbaktu ....Pages 51-71
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Ecological Imperialism in the Age of the Posthuman: David Fedele’s E-Wasteland ....Pages 75-94
Wasted Humans and Garbage Animals: Deadly Transcorporeality and Documentary Activism....Pages 95-114
 Surviving Progress, Modernity and Making Sense of the Crisis in Nature....Pages 115-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
What is “A” Fig?....Pages 135-153
 Elemental as Mythic and Existential Parable....Pages 155-170
The Possibilities of a River and a Ritual Dance: An Ecoethnographic Analysis of Kuttan Aarangottu Vayali’s Bhagavathy aattu ....Pages 171-188
Eco-exoticism in Thorny Land: Invasion of Cheemakaruvel ....Pages 189-202
Back Matter....Pages 203-213