Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Intersecting Ecology and Film
Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway
Part I: Eco-poetics: Film, Form, and the Natural World
Chapter 1. Three Worlds: Dwelling and Worldhood on Screen
Anat Pick
Chapter 2. Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools - Structure, Immanence and Eco-aesthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning's Land Films
Silke Panse
Chapter 3. Land as Protagonist - An Interview with James Benning
Silke Panse
Part II: Zoe-tropes: Envisioning the Nonhuman
Chapter 4. Anthropomorphism and Its Vicissitudes: Reflections on Homme-sick Cinema
James Leo Cahill
Chapter 5. Animism and the Performative Realist Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
May Adadol Ingawanij
Chapter 6. Was Blind But Now I See: Animal Liberation Documentaries' Deconstruction of Barriers to Witnessing Injustice
Carrie Packwood Freeman and Scott Tulloch
Chapter 7. Filming the Frozen South: Animals in Early Antarctic Exploration Films
Elizabeth Leane and Steve Nicol
Part III: Eco-politics: Environment, Image, Ideology
Chapter 8. Dirty Pictures: Framing Pollution and Desire in 'new New Queer Cinema'
Sophie Mayer
Chapter 9. Utopia in the Mud: Nature and Landscape in the Soviet Science Fiction Film
Elana Gomel
Chapter 10. Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of Nature
Claire Molloy
Chapter 11. Buried Land: Filming the Bosnian Pyramids
Steven Eastwood and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes
Part IV: Eco-praxis: Film as Environmental Practice
Chapter 12. Strange Seeing: Re-viewing Nature in the Films of Rose Lowder
Guinevere Narraway
Chapter 13. The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration: Bae Yong-kyun's Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East
Chia-Ju Chang
Chapter 14. An Inconvenient Truth: Science and Argumentation in the Expository Documentary Film
David Ingram
Chapter 15. Planet in Focus: Environmental Film Festivals
Kay Armatage
Notes on Contributors
Index