Ecological and environmental turns : (re)mapping China's sociocultural landscape through ecocinema /

"The world faces unprecedented challenges from war, disease, and environmental disasters. Post-COVID-19, the need to reconsider human-nonhuman relations has become critical. This book remaps China's socio-environmental landscape through ecocinema and ecocriticism, exploring how we might re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cui, Shuqin (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, 2025.
Series:	Cambria sinophone world series.
Subjects:	Environmental protection and motion pictures > China. Human ecology > China. Ecocriticism > China. Motion pictures > History. Environmental protection and motion pictures. Protection de l'environnement et cinéma. Écocritique > Chine. Cinéma > Histoire.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Pragmatic turns
Chapter 1: Back to 1942: forgotten history and lost memory in the making of a famine narrative
Chapter 2: Aftershock: ecological and psychological trauma through the mode of family melodrama
Chapter 3: Waking the Green Tiger: environmental activism through social media
Chapter 4: Still Life: bodies in ruins and landscape in disappearance
Chapter 5: Manufactured Landscapes: a mediation and meditation between film and photography
Chapter 6: Behemouth: a poetic vision of ravaged landscape
Chapter 7: Under the Dome: a multimedia documentary in the digital age
Chapter 8: Plastic China: transnational trash flow and documentary narratives
Chapter 9: Days and Nights in Wuhan and 76 Days: the lockdown narrative and post-pandemic documentaries
Chapter 10: Kekexili-Mountain Patrol: Tibetan antelopes and wilderness through the lens of a man with a camera
Chapter 11: Wolf Totem: a romantic elegy to exterminated animals and endangered ethnicities
Chapter 12: Kung Fu Panda: anthropomorphic animated animals and computer-generated Kung Fu masters
Conclusion: The Wandering Earth: the present and the future.