Ecodocumentaries: Critical Essays

By Rayson K. Alex

Book Overview

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 K??p?.-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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137562234
• ISBN13: 9781137562234
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.6" x 6.3"