Transnational Ecocinema

Pietari Kääpä is professor of media and communications at the University of Warwick. He has published widely in the field of environmental media studies, with a focus on media management and production studies, including Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Change (co-edited with Hunter Vaughan, Palgrave, 2022).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.'