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Ecology and the Moving image

Key information

  • Module code:

    7AAQS671

  • Level:

    7

  • Semester:

      Spring

  • Credit value:

    20

Module description

The environment is a global concern that moving image culture has long been devoted to exploring. Yet in recent years ecology has come even more stridently to the forefront of scholarship, largely in tandem with the proliferation of ecocinema. This module focuses on a range of cutting-edge debates within ecophilosophy in order to interrogate the ways in which ecology and the moving image relate to one another, from Hollywood to global art house cinema, narrative cinema to the avant-garde. While the main focus is on film, the module also makes reference to television nature documentary and multi-platform installation works. We discuss how humans might forge ever more sustainable and ethical relations to other life forms – animal, vegetal, mineral – on this planet, while also envisaging the creation of a post-anthropocentric moving image culture in the era that has been termed ‘the Anthropocene’.

Assessment details

4000-word essay (100%)

Learning outcomes

 

 

Teaching pattern

10 x 2hr seminars

10 x 2.5hr screenings

Department

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