Ecodocumentaries: Critical Essays
Editat de Rayson K. Alex, S. Susan Deborahen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 noi 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781137562234
ISBN-10: 1137562234
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: XXIII, 213 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1137562234
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: XXIII, 213 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface.Simon C. Estok.-Introduction.Rayson K. Alex and S. Susan Deborah.-Part 1: Land, Food, Ethics.-1. In God’s Land: Cinematic Affect, Animation, and the Perceptual Dilemmas of Slow Violence.Salma Monani.-2. Transnational perspectives on land ethics: Elemental and Not My Land.Pietari Kääpä.-3. Communal Indian Farming and Food Ecology: A Reading of Timbaktu.Pat Brereton.Part II: Development, Waste, Ethics.-4. Ecological Imperialism in the Age of the Posthuman: David Fedele’s E-Wasteland.Basak Agin Donmez.-5. Wasted Humans and Garbage Animals: Deadly Transcorporeality and Documentary Activism.Chia-ju Chang.-6. Surviving Progress, Modernity and Making Sense of the Crisis in Nature.Divya Anand.-Part III: Tree, River, Ethics.-7. What is a fig?.Nirmal Selvamony.-8. Elemental as Existential and Mythic Parable.John A. Duvall.-9. The Possibilities of a River and a Dance: An Ecoethnographic Analysis of Kuttan Aarangottu’s Bhagavathy aattu.Sreejith Varma R. and Swarnalatha Rangarajan.-10. Eco-exoticism in Thorny Land: Invasion of Cheemakaruvel.Rayson K. Alex, Samuel Moses Srinivas K and S. Susan Deborah
Notă biografică
Rayson K. Alex, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa, West India. He is one of the editors of Essays in Ecocriticism (2007) and Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations (2014). Along with S. Susan Deborah, K. Samuel Moses and Sachindev P.S., he founded ‘The Ecomedia Team’ in 2005 which gradually grew into tiNai Ecofilm Festival (www.teff.in), an international ecofilm festival dedicated to ecodocumentaries. His academic interests are in the areas of indigenous studies, ecoindigeneity, ecocinema studies and ecocriticism.
S. Susan Deborah, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, M. E. S. College of Arts & Commerce, Goa, West India. She is one of the editors of Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations (2014), the first volume in the area of ecocinema in India. She is the recipient (along withRayson K. Alex) of ASLE-USA Media Subvention Grant, for creating an interactive video space for ecocinema scholarship. Her interests lie in food studies, ecomedia and ecocriticism.
Textul de pe ultima copertă
This book features ten critical essays on ecodocumentaries written by eminent scholars from India, USA, Ireland, Finland and Turkey in the area of ecocinema studies. Situating social documentaries with explicit ecological form and content, the volume takes relational positions on political, cultural and conservational aspects of natures and cultures in various cultural contexts. Documentaries themed around issues such as electronic waste, animal rights, land ethics, pollution of river, land grabbing, development and exotic plants are some of the topics ecocritiqued in this volume.
Caracteristici
Promotes the idea that all social problems are also ecological Offers a nexus of critical perspectives on ecodocumentaries Offers analysis of documentaries on topics such as electronic waste, animal rights and land ethics