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

Cinema of/for the Anthropocene

Affect, Ecology, and More-Than-Human Kinship

By: Andrea Ruthven (Editor), Katarzyna Paszkiewicz (Editor)

Hardcover | 31 January 2025

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Cinema of/for the Anthropocene sheds light on the question of how films can allow us to resituate ourselves within what is known today as the Anthropocene. The authors address this question through a variety of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, from film and cultural studies, new materialisms, critical posthumanism and animal studies, critical race theory and Indigenous media studies, to gender and sexuality studies, with a primary focus on films produced in the United States and Canada.

The volume moves beyond the mere acknowledgment of the devastating damage inflicted during the Anthropocene to think about new ways of inhabiting the world through concepts such as affect, response-ability, and more-than-human kinship. The writers in this collection respond to its invitation by addressing a range of genres and modes, thus complicating the apocalyptic discourses which have typically been central to the studies on the Anthropocene: in addition to dystopian films, the volume discusses animated films, Hollywood biopics, climate change documentaries, experimental film, comedy, horror sci-fi, as well as disease thriller and survival film. Taken together, the chapters offer cross-disciplinary readings of the cinema of/for the Anthropocene, showing ways in which it can help us re-orient our thinking to make sense of the current age and address the planetary-scale environmental catastrophe.

This volume will appeal to researchers and students in film studies, cultural studies, and the burgeoning field of environmental humanities.

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"Crossing an impressive range of forms, industries, perspectives and practices, the contributions to this splendid collection are distinguished by a reparative impulse to locate, amid the wreckage signalled by the term 'Anthropocene,' the tools we need for constructing a co-habitable future. As these pieces show, cinematic forms can reveal and activate sustaining, Earth-focused forms of pedagogy, relationality, embodiment, perception, affect, spectatorship, ethics, and politics." -- Pansy Duncan, Senior Lecturer in Media Studies (Massey University), co-author of Screening the Posthuman (2023)

"Human understanding of the world around us has changed and it's time cinema studies caught up. This outstanding volume rises to that challenge with aplomb!" -- Steve Rust (University of Oregon), co-editor of Ecocinema Theory and Practice and Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

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