Transnational Ecocinema

Pietari Kääpä is a reader in media and communications at the University of Warwick. He works in the field of environmental media studies with a specific focus on media management and industry studies. His monograph Environmental Management of the Media: Industry, Policy, Practice (Routledge, 2018) explores the ecological footprint of media production and the policies and strategies developed in the media sector to curtail these impacts. He is PI (with Hunter Vaughan, University of Cambridge) of the AHRC Global Green Media Network (www.globalgreenmedianetwork.com).Contact: Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, Faculty of Arts Building, University of Warwick, University Road, Coventry CV4 7EQ, UK.Tommy Gustafsson holds a Ph.D. in history and is professor of film studies at Linnaeus University. His publications include Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema: A Cultural Analysis of 1920s Films (McFarland, 2014) and the anthology Nordic Genre Film: Small Nation Film Cultures in the Global Marketplace (with Pietari Kääpä, Edinburgh University Press, 2015).

• PART I: Introduction to Transnational Ecocinema  Introduction: Transnational Ecocinema in an age of Ecological Transformation – Pietari Kääpä and Tommy Gustafsson Transnational Approaches to Ecocinema: Charting an Expansive Field – Pietari Kääpä PART II: Documentary Politics and the Ecological Imagination Colourful Screens: Water Imaginaries in Documentaries from China and Taiwan – Enoch Yee-Lok Tam From My Fancy High Heels to Useless Clothing: ‘Interconnectedness’ and Ecocritical Issues in Transnational Documentaries – Kiu-wai Chu Ecocinema and ‘Good Life’ in Latin America – Roberto Forns-Broggi Dimensions of Humanity in Earthlings (2005) and Encounters at the End of the World (2007) – Ilda Teresa de Castro PART III: Popular Film and Ecology China Has a Natural Environment, Too!: Consumerist and Ideological Ecoimaginaries in the Cinema of Feng Xiaogang – Corrado Neri And the Oscar Goes to … Ecoheroines, Ecoheros and the Development of Ecothemes from The China Syndrome (1979) to GasLand (2010) – Tommy Gustafsson PART IV: (In)Sustainable Footprint Of Cinema  Climate Change Films: Fear and Agency Appeals – Inês Crespo and Ângela Pereira Envisaging Environmental Change: Foregrounding Place in Three Australian Ecomedia Initiatives – Susan Ward and Rebecca Coyle Afterword – Towards a Transnational Understanding of the Anthropocene – Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Kääpä

'Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Kääpä’s edited collection of essays is at the forefront of critical concerns.'