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Course Bibliography

Ecocinema Literature

Bouse, Derek. Wildlife Films. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. https://soka.on.worldcat.org/oclc/794702274

Chris, Cynthia. Watching Wildlife. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006. https://soka.on.worldcat.org/oclc/182775909

Duvall, John A. The Environmental Documentary: Cinema Activism in the 21st Century. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=nlebk&AN=1495478&site=ehost-live&custid=s4763706.

Gustafsson, Tommy, and Pietari Kääpä. Transnational ecocinema: Film culture in an era of ecological transformation. Intellect Ltd.,. 2013 https://soka.on.worldcat.org/oclc/855504254

Harness, Hallie, and Howard Drossman. “The Environmental Education through Filmmaking Project.” Environmental Education Research 17, no. 6 (2011): 829–849. https://soka.on.worldcat.org/oclc/4839448217

Hughes, H. Green Documentary: Environmental Documentary in the Twenty-First Century. Intellect Books, 2014

Ingram, David. Green Screen: Environmentalism and Hollywood Cinema. Representing American Culture. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000. (Note: Soka only owns the print book. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy041/2003427261.html.)

Ivakhiv, Adrian J. Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature. Environmental Humanities Series. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=nlebk&AN=1433963&site=ehost-live&custid=s4763706.

Krstic, Igor. Slums on screen: world cinema and the planet of slums. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. https://soka.on.worldcat.org/oclc/963606152

MacKenzie, Scott, and Anna Westerståhl Stenport. Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic. Traditions in World Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=nlebk&AN=1203137&site=ehost-live&custid=s4763706.

Mi, Jiayan, and Sheldon H. Lu. Chinese Ecocinema: In the Age of Environmental Challenge. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=nlebk&AN=359482&site=ehost-live&custid=s4763706.

Rust, Stephen, Salma Monani, and Sean Cubitt. Ecocinema: Theory and Practice. (2012) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/soka-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1024590

Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula. Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocentricism. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. https://soka.on.worldcat.org/oclc/755622705

Wells, Christopher W. Environmental Justice in Postwar America: A Documentary Reader. 1 online resource (xix, 305 pages): illustrations. vols. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018. https://soka.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1032292248 and https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1813180.

Literature on Documentary Filmmaking

Aufderheide, Patricia. Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction. Very Short Introductions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=nlebk&AN=220918&site=ehost-live&custid=s4763706.

Lee-Wright., Peter The Documentary Handbook. Media Practice. London: Routledge, 2010. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=nlebk&AN=301218&site=ehost-live&custid=s4763706.

Nichols, Bill, et al. Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video. New and Expanded Edition. Wayne State University Press, 2014. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=nlebk&AN=698576&site=ehost-live&custid=s4763706

Winston, Brian, Gail Vanstone, and Wang Chi. The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=nlebk&AN=1420783&site=ehost-live&custid=s4763706.

Other Films

Additional documentaries to consider for various sub-topics:

Early Humorous vs Recent Satirical Anthropomorphizing of Animals in Film:

• The Living Desert (1953) Disney (youtube) & Rabbit a la Berlin (2009) Docuseek [39 min]

I Am Greta (2020) (Hulu original)

Smithonian Channel’s Last Call for the Bayou on the disappearing Mississippi Delta, including

On a Wing and a Prayer. (2019) (10min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1XeP9HVHBA

The 11^th Hour (2007) Leo DiCaprio on Climate Change

The Age of Stupid (2007) (1:28min) Pseudo Sci-Fi documentary about climate change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awVbLg59tR8

Trashed (2012) [20min excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg0UlnEjVH4]

Manufactured Landscapes (1h 30 min) (2006) (available for rent on multiple platforms)

The Island of the Whales (2016) & The Cove (2009) (multiple platforms)

Blue Vinyl (A ‘toxic’ comedy about vinyl siding nad PVC pollutants) (2002) (1h 38min) (Bullfrog Films), on Docuseek

Toast (1977) [12 min] on energy misuse, on Docuseek

Encounters at the End of the World (2008) Werner Herzog (Youtube, rent for $2.99)

Under the Dome (2015) Air pollution in China (Youtube)

Fire in Paradise (2019) (40min) About the Butte fire that burned down Paradise, CA (Netflix)

Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival (2017) (1h21min) Icarus, on Docuseek

Crossing the Stones – Arne Naess Bio (1993) (47 min) Bullfrog Films on Docuseek

Force of Nature (on David Suzuki) (2012) (1h30min) Bullfrog, on Docuseek

Build Green. David Suzuki on green building. (2008) (47 min) Bullfrog Films, on Dokuseek

The Long March (Community in Chengdu, China organizing to clean up a polluted river) (2012) (27 min) Bullfrog, on Docuseek

Walking on Water Wasn’t Built in a Day (Allen Ginsberg at Earth Day 1970) (1971) (17min) Bullfrog on Dokuseek

Some additional lists of environmental films:

Independent Lens. “17 Documentaries About Sustainability and Climate Change.” Accessed October 20, 2020. https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/earth-day-watch-list-17-new-films-about-sustainability-climate-change/.

Sustainability at Harvard. “Best Films to Inspire Sustainability,” May 11, 2015. https://green.harvard.edu/tools-resources/green-tip/best-films-inspire-sustainability.

Green Planet Films. “Home / Landing Page.” Accessed October 20, 2020. https://www.greenplanetfilms.org/.

And: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_films