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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 55–75.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Gabriella Blasi Abstract Through a figural analysis of Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973), this paper seeks to contribute to a more defined role of film criticism in contemporary environmental thought. The analysis focuses on the relation between humans and nature in Badlands and revolves around...
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Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 6. A still from The Dreamworlds of Beaver (2017), a film by Christy Gast, Laura Ogden, and Camila Marambio
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in Anthropomorphism in the Anthropocene: Reassembling Wildlife Management Data in Bear 71
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 2. The minimalist grid interface. Bear 71 ©2012 National Film Board of Canada. All rights reserved.
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 331–350.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Liu Mankun Abstract This article navigates the obligatory relationship between extinction narratives and future imaginaries through the lens of an artist’s films. Taking Chinese artist Mao Chenyu’s works as case studies, the first part examines the notion of extinction that his video essay Becoming...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 661–679.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and BAM you can redpill someone, suddenly a bubble will pop in their heads, something they thought ridiculous is suddenly real. 105 To “redpill” is a reference to the Wachowskis’ film The Matrix (1999), in which protagonist Neo (Keanu Reeves) chooses between a red pill that will reveal...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 152–173.
Published: 01 May 2019
... porosity, and reciprocal interpenetration. In this article the author examines the history and materiality of asbestos to theorize toxic embodiment through the mutuality of the haptic sense and the breaching of boundaries of inside and outside. The author develops this through an analysis of her own film...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 215–231.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Michał Krawczyk Abstract As an environmental humanist, I grab a camera to mediate the world around me. The short film LAND/SCAPE (2020), cocreated by two donkeys (Dondolo and Giorgiana), fellow PhD candidate Giulia Lepori, and me, was filmed on the Mediterranean island of Sicily in the Valley...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Franziska Strack Abstract This article engages with French filmmaker Jean Painlevé’s experimental shorts on the physiognomy and behavior of marine animals. The article argues that Painlevé’s films establish a corporeal and nonlinguistic mode of interspecies communication that draws upon...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 29–48.
Published: 01 March 2022
... explores the depths of the 1995 cli-fi film Waterworld , offering an ecocritical analysis of how the film’s mutant imaginary might help us fathom how to flourish amid floods and contest the very human forces/forms that shape them. In Waterworld , the authors find queer elemental bodies collaborating...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Emma Blackett Abstract This article discusses the settler-colonial femininity at work in two films that foreground the Pacific Ocean, Blue Crush (John Stockwell, 2002) and The Piano (Jane Campion, 1993). With these film readings it offers a critique of the feminist new materialist turn toward water...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 441–459.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Nicolai Skiveren Abstract This article examines the use of humor in contemporary environmental short films, centering on the alleviating power of humor and its capacity to challenge conventional modes of perception. It argues that humor constitutes an important narrative device in the stories...
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Environmental Humanities (2023) 15 (2): 124–141.
Published: 01 July 2023
... to protect the night sky. Chris Murphy’s time lapse, South Celestial Pole from Mt John (2016), shot in Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, hastens time and utilizes a star tracker so that the city and lake of Takapō turn sideways against stars. The film connects relative darkness and highly...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 May 2020
... sci-fi film Snowpiercer and argue that the film problematizes a persistent Western-centric bias in both the environmental humanities and the literature on media materialism. Inspired by the metaphoric power of Kronon, the industrial-waste-turned-explosive in Snowpiercer , we theorize...
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Published: 01 May 2017
Figure 1. Still from Sunset Ethnography , dir. Aaron Burton, 2014, courtesy of Kurrajong Films
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in Redistribute Toxicity : An Art Intervention into the Legacy of the Inter-German Toxic Waste Trade
> Environmental Humanities
Published: 01 November 2023
Figure 1. Waste trucks passing through the Berlin Wall to landfills in the East. Stills from a film, RBB media, 1973.
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Figure 2. The minimalist grid interface. Bear 71 ©2012 National Film Board of Canada. All rights reserved. ...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 69–93.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Andrew Mark Abstract This paper describes Bob Wiseman's allegorical piece, Uranium, arguing that it accesses emotion to alter the consciousness of percipients. Audiences respond with unusual intensity to Uranium's tragic environmental narrative. By using puppet theatre, film, comedy, and song...
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Environmental Humanities (2018) 10 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of apocalypse as they circulate traumatically in three texts: George Miller’s film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Marina Zurkow’s animation Slurb (2009), and Briohny Doyle’s novel The Island Will Sink (2016). Climate catastrophe, that most threatening yet elusive of hyperobjects, marks and emerges irresistibly from...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 512–528.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Hannah Klaubert Abstract This essay engages debates about hopeful critical scholarship in the environmental humanities via an analysis of the figure of the Babushka of Chornobyl in literature, film, and photography. The argument for hazardous hope unfolds in two steps. First, the article discusses...
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Environmental Humanities (2024) 16 (2): 371–384.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Randy Laist Abstract The Secret Life of Plants , a 1973 book that was developed into a 1979 documentary film, reports on a flurry of parapsychological research involving attempts to communicate with plants using electrodes, lie detectors, and psychic powers. The book highlights the work of Cleve...
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