Ecodocumentaries Critical Essays
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 take
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rayson k. alex & s. susan deborah
Ecodocumentaries
Rayson K. Alex • S. Susan Deborah Editors
Ecodocumentaries Critical Essays
Editors Rayson K. Alex Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, Goa, India
S. Susan Deborah M. E. S. College of Arts & Commerce, Goa, India
ISBN 978-1-137-56223-4 ISBN 978-1-137-56224-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56224-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016957775 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © Photograph entitled “The Wired Nature” by Arun Bose, Creative Director, Cockroach in Cocktail Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom
To All the ecodocumentary filmmakers who support tiNai Ecofilm Festival
Foreword: Packaging Concerns
“They didn’t fear their demise, they repackaged it—it can be enjoyed as video games, as TV shows, books, movies. The entire world wholeheartedly embraced the apocalypse and sprinted toward it with gleeful abandon.” Thus spoke Governor David Nix in the film Tomorrowland. We are they, and we are having a heyday with all things eco. Ecocinema, ecomedia, ecodocumentaries, ecoperformances, ecocriticism: it is the best of times, and it is the worst of times to be the natural environment. There is intense interest—popular and academic—in all things eco. There is hope, and there is despair. There are utopic visions of sustainable “futuristic” futures (clean, glossy, digital, silicon), and there are dystopic views of imagined horrors to continue (dirt, WALL-E, and the gray of The Road). There is entertainment, and there is fact (the difference bet
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