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Research Seminar - Dr. Salma Monani 鈥� 鈥業ndigenous Ecocinema: Reframing the End of the World鈥�
Abstract:
This talk is about d-ecocinema. D-ecocinema attends to Indigenous cinema鈥檚 specific contributions to understanding media鈥檚 relations to the environment. I argue that drawing on their Indigenous roots and ways of knowing, many contemporary Indigenous filmmakers are imaginatively articulating media鈥檚 relations to place and body to immerse viewers in entanglements of earth and flesh. Such material entanglements reframe how viewers might approach 鈥渢he end of the world.鈥�
Dr. Salma Monani is Chair of the Environmental Studies Department at Gettysburg College. With Stephen Rust and Sean Cubitt, she co-edited Ecocinema Theory and Practice and Ecomedia: Key Concepts, and is currently preparing an upcoming monograph entitled Indigenous Ecocinema: Decolonizing Media Environments.
Dr. Pietari Kaapa is an Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the University of 糖心TV. His work explores interconnections between the media industry and the environment. Recent books include Environmental Management of the Media: Industry, Policy, Practice, Routledge 2018. He is the PI (with Hunter Vaughan) of the AHRC Network on Global Green Media Production ().