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Introduction: The Ethics of Relationships in Social Documentaries / Rayson K. Alex and S. Susan Deborah -- In God's Land: Cinematic Affect, Animation, and the Perceptual Dilemmas of Slow Violence / Salma Monani -- Transnational Perspectives on Land Ethics: Elemental and Not My Land / Pietari Kääpä -- Communal Indian Farming and Food Ecology: A Reading of Timbaktu / Pat Brereton -- Ecological Imperialism in the Age of the Posthuman: David Fedele's E-Wasteland / Bașak Ağın Dönmez -- Wasted Humans and Garbage Animals: Deadly Transcorporeality and Documentary Activism / Chia-ju Chang -- Surviving Progress, Modernity and Making Sense of the Crisis in Nature / Divya Anand -- What is "a" fig? / Nirmal Selvamony -- Elemental as Mythic and Existential Parable / John A. Duvall -- The Possibilities of a River and a Ritual Dance: An Ecoethnographic Analysis of Kuttan Aarangottu Vayali's Bhagavathy aattu / R. Sreejith Varma and Swarmalatha Rangarajan -- Eco-exoticism in Thorny land: invasion of Cheemakaruvel / Rayson K. Alex, K. Samuel Moses Srinivas, and S. Susan Deborah. |
| Summary |
This book features ten critical essays on ecodocumentaries written by eminent scholars from India, USA, Ireland, Finland and Turkey in the area of ecocinema studies. Situating social documentaries with explicit ecological form and content, the volume takes relational positions on political, cultural and conservational aspects of natures and cultures in various cultural contexts. Documentaries themed around issues such as electronic waste, animal rights, land ethics, pollution of river, land grabbing, development and exotic plants are some of the topics ecocritiqued in this volume. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Documentary films -- History and criticism.
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Documentary films. |
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Environmental films -- History and criticism.
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Environmental films. |
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Ecological science, the Biosphere. |
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Documentary films. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. |
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Culture -- Study and teaching. |
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Ecology. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Alex, Rayson K., editor.
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Deborah, S. Susan, editor.
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| In: |
Springer eBooks |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Ecodocumentaries. London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016] 9781137562234 (DLC) 2016957775 (OCoLC)951508906 |
| ISBN |
9781137562241 (electronic book) |
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1137562242 (electronic book) |
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1137562234 |
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9781137562234 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/978-1-137-56224-1 |
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