ECOLOGIES OF THE MOVING IMAGE:
Cinema, Affect, Nature
Adrian Ivakhiv
Ivakhiv’s focus is on the connection between the worlds
produced by film and the socio-ecological relations that subtend them – the systemic
interdependencies between humans, animals, landscapes, and socio-technical networks.
He examines the geographies, visualities, and ‘anthropologies’ – relations of
here and there, seer and seen, us and them, human and inhuman – produced in a
range of styles and genres including ethnographic and wildlife documentaries,
westerns and road movies, science-fiction and eco-disaster films, the art films
of Tarkovsky, Herzog and Greenaway, experimental cinema, and the expanding
audio-visual universe of cable television and YouTube. In the process, Ivakhiv enriches
film and visual theory by bringing an ecocritical lens into dialogue with the
work of theorists including Deleuze, Heidegger, Zizek, Jameson, Kracauer, Sobchack, and Bordwell.
Chapters
1.
Journeys to and from Earth: Traversing cinema’s ecological unconscious
2. Environmental visuality & the ecology of images
3. In & out of The Zone: Cinematic affect &
extra-filmic reality
4. Humana nativa: Cultured nature & naturalized culture
5. Journeys on Earth: Landscapes of identity & disidentification
6. Anima moralia:
Anthropomorphism, animamorphism, & the barbarians at the gates