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Entangled in the hybrid fields of ecomedia studies and material
ecocriticism, Elena Past examines five Italian films shot on
location and ponders the complex relationships that the production
crews developed with the filming locations and the nonhuman cast
members. She uses these films—Red Desert (1964), The Winds Blows
Round (2005), Gomorrah (2008), Le quattro volte (2010), and Return
to the Aeolian Islands (2010)—as case studies to explore pressing
environmental questions such as cinema's dependence on
hydrocarbons, the toxic waste crisis in the region of Campania, and
our reliance on the nonhuman world. Dynamic and unexpected actors
emerge as the subjects of each chapter: playful goats, erupting
volcanoes, airborne dust particles, fluid petroleum, and even the
sound of silence. Based on interviews with crew members and close
readings of the films themselves, Italian Ecocinema Beyond the
Human theorizes how filmmaking practice—from sound recording to
location scouting to managing a production—helps uncover cinema's
ecological footprint and its potential to open new perspectives on
the nonhuman world.
Entangled in the hybrid fields of ecomedia studies and material
ecocriticism, Elena Past examines five Italian films shot on
location and ponders the complex relationships that the production
crews developed with the filming locations and the nonhuman cast
members. She uses these films-Red Desert (1964), The Winds Blows
Round (2005), Gomorrah (2008), Le quattro volte (2010), and Return
to the Aeolian Islands (2010)-as case studies to explore pressing
environmental questions such as cinema's dependence on
hydrocarbons, the toxic waste crisis in the region of Campania, and
our reliance on the nonhuman world. Dynamic and unexpected actors
emerge as the subjects of each chapter: playful goats, erupting
volcanoes, airborne dust particles, fluid petroleum, and even the
sound of silence. Based on interviews with crew members and close
readings of the films themselves, Italian Ecocinema Beyond the
Human theorizes how filmmaking practice-from sound recording to
location scouting to managing a production-helps uncover cinema's
ecological footprint and its potential to open new perspectives on
the nonhuman world.
Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most
compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the
first book to examine Italy-as a territory of both matter and
imagination-through the lens of the environmental humanities. The
contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches-including
ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology,
eco-art, and animal and landscape studies-to move past cliche and
reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place. Among the
topics investigated are post-seismic rubble and the stratifying
geosocial layers of the Anthropocene, the landscape connections in
the work of writers such as Calvino and Buzzati, the contaminated
fields of the ecomafia's trafficking, Slow Food's gastronomy of
liberation, poetic birds and historic forests, resident parasites,
and nonhuman creatures. At a time when the tension between the
local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots
and porous place-identities, Italy and the Environmental Humanities
builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new
voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented discussions,
but the entire debate on environmental culture.
Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most
compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the
first book to examine Italy-as a territory of both matter and
imagination-through the lens of the environmental humanities. The
contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches-including
ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology,
eco-art, and animal and landscape studies-to move past cliche and
reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place. Among the
topics investigated are post-seismic rubble and the stratifying
geosocial layers of the Anthropocene, the landscape connections in
the work of writers such as Calvino and Buzzati, the contaminated
fields of the ecomafia's trafficking, Slow Food's gastronomy of
liberation, poetic birds and historic forests, resident parasites,
and nonhuman creatures. At a time when the tension between the
local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots
and porous place-identities, Italy and the Environmental Humanities
builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new
voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented discussions,
but the entire debate on environmental culture.
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