Warscapes

Cortland Rankin is an assistant professor of film studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is the author of Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York.Brady Fletcher is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Rochester in New York.

• Introduction: Situational Awareness: Orienting the Study of War, Environment, and MediaCORTLAND RANKIN AND BRADY FLETCHERPart I Area of Operations: Mapping Militarized Geographies1 Exposed Façades: Documentary Constructions of Urban Training Centers as Countergeographies of American Military UrbanismCORTLAND RANKIN2 Neocolonial Warscapes: The Militarized Jungles of Twenty-First- Century Action-Adventure CinemaTATIANA KONRAD3 "Man's Determined Assault on the Secrets of Space": Thinking Militarized Astronautics and Extraterrestrial Environmentality with For All MankindBRADY FLETCHERPart II War-Torn: Occupation, Resistance, and Environmental Violence4 Night Raiders: Indigenous Cinema Illuminates Colonial-Capitalist WarfareCYNTHIA BARON5 Ecocide in Ukraine: Environmental Violence and War in Valentyn Vasyanovych's AtlantisHALEY LAURILA6 Pan, Tilt, Zoom: Witnessing the Occupation of East Jerusalem in The Neighbour Before the HouseHUGO L JUNGBÄCKPart III Aftermath: Reframing the Memory of War Through Elemental Media7 The Dust of War: Rethinking the Global War on Terror's Iconic DustRENÉE PASTEL8 How to Look at Ice: The Ice Road in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Visual Canon of the Leningrad SiegeNATALIJA ARLAUSKAITĖ9 Changes of State: Water as Medium and the Fog of War in John Akomfrah's Mimesis: African SoldierLAWRENCE ALEXANDERConclusion: Special Reconnaissance Operations: How to Look for WarscapesCORTLAND RANKIN AND BRADY FLETCHERAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIndex

"Warscapes deploys multiple insightful lenses through which to analyze and reframe the range of meanings embedded in and surrounding war environments. This fascinating set of essays provides a timely approach to the legacy of war making and slow violence, revealing new understudied ecocritical territories." - Anna Froula, professor of English at East Carolina University"The injunction 'Shoot!' commands both cinema and warfare, each framing ecologies to intervene in them via complex and sometimes contradictory intents. This far-reaching, far-ranging volume teases out the interweavings of bellicosity and visual representation in compelling, consequential fashion. A rich volume with telling insights at every turn." - Dana Polan, Martin Scorsese Professor of Cinema at New York University