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"The Art of Czech Animation is the first comprehensive English language account of Czech animation from the 1920s to the present, covering both 2D animation forms and CGI, with a focus upon the stop-motion films of Jirí Trnka, Hermína Týrlová, Jan Švankmajer and Jirí Barta. Stop-motion is a highly embodied form of animation and The Art of Czech Animation develops a new materialist approach to studying these films. Instead of imposing top-down Film Theory onto its case studies, the book's analysis is built up from close readings of the films themselves, with particular attention given to their non-human objects. In a time of environmental crisis, the unique way Czech animated films use allegory to de-centre the human world and give a voice to non-human aspects of the natural world points us towards a means by which culture can increase ecological awareness in viewers. Such a refutation of a human-centred view of the world was contrary to communist orthodoxy and it remains so under late-stage consumer-capitalism. As such, these films do not only offer beautiful examples of allegory, but stand as models of political dissent. The Art of Czech Animation is a unique endeavour of film philosophy to provide a materialist appraisal of a heretofore neglected strand of Central-Eastern European cinema."--

Animated films --- Animated films --- Animals in motion pictures --- Nature in motion pictures --- History and criticism --- Political aspects

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Volume 39 of FLS French Literature Series features ten articles on the topic of the environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film. Contributors engage with the work of such authors, filmakers and cartoonists as Michel Serres, Luc Ferry, Patrice Nganang, Marie Darrieussecq, Yann-Arthus Bertrand and Plantu, and such topics as human zoos, eco-colonialism, queer theory, and the environmental catastrophes of WWI and, globally, of human civilization as recorded in the recent eco-documentary, HOME . Wide-ranging, provocative and topical these articles both broaden and deepen the efficacy of ecocriticism as a tool for enriching our understanding of the field beyond the English and American “nature writing” at the theory’s core.

Thematology --- French literature --- Film --- Nature in literature --- Nature in motion pictures --- Ecocriticism --- Motion pictures, French --- Ecocriticism. --- French literature. --- Motion pictures, French. --- Nature in literature. --- Nature in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Nature in poetry --- French motion pictures --- Foreign films --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- History and criticism --- Environmentalism in literature. --- Environmental films.

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The hero in literature and film is an expression of seasonal occurrence. His behavior exhibits, symbolically, the relationship of the sun to the earth in twelve phases. It begins at the March equinox and proceeds through the natural year. He assumes, then, twelve distinct characterizations. His conflicts and successes reflect the natural conditions of Early Spring, Mid-Spring, Late Spring, and so on. It creates an aesthetic development that primarily converts traditional mythic dynamics (based in agriculture) into story lines. His character in a given season suggests the dynamism of that seaso

Heroes in literature. --- Heroes in motion pictures. --- Nature in literature. Nature in motion pictures. --- Seasons in literature. --- Heroes in literature --- Heroes in motion pictures --- Seasons in literature --- Nature in literature --- Nature in motion pictures --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Motion pictures --- Nature in poetry --- Seasons in poetry

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Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. This is a comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed 'posthuman cinema.' It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film.

Ecology in motion pictures. --- Environmental films --- Environmental protection and motion pictures. --- Environmentalism in motion pictures. --- Nature films --- Nature in motion pictures. --- History and criticism. --- Environmental protection and motion pictures --- Nature in motion pictures --- Environmentalism in motion pictures --- Ecology in motion pictures --- film --- filmgeschiedenis --- ecologie --- film en ecologie --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- kunst en wetenschap --- 791.43 --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures and environmental protection --- Natural history films --- Natural history motion pictures --- Natural history movies --- Nature motion pictures --- Nature movies --- Nature videos --- Science films --- History and criticism

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"Moving images take us on mental and emotional journeys, over the course of which we and our worlds undergo change. This is the premise of Ecologies of the Moving Image, which accounts for the ways cinematic moving images move viewers in ways that reshape our understanding of ourselves, of life, and of the Earth and universe. This book presents an ecophilosophy of the cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to its lived ecologies--the material, social, and perceptual relations within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. Cinema, Adrian Ivakhiv argues, lures us into its worlds, but those worlds are grounded in a material and communicative Earth that supports them, even if that supporting materiality withdraws from visibility. Ivakhiv examines the geographies, visualities, and anthropologies--relations of here and there, seer and seen, us and them, human and inhuman--found across a range of styles and genres, from ethnographic and wildlife documentaries to westerns and road movies, and from sci-fi blockbusters and eco-disaster films to the experimental and art films of Tarkovsky, Herzog, Greenaway, Malick, Dash, and Brakhage as well as YouTube's expanding audiovisual universe. Through its process-relational account of cinema, drawn from philosophers such as Whitehead, Peirce, and Deleuze, the book boldly enriches our understanding of film and visual media."--Publisher's website.

Motion pictures -- Philosophy. --- Motion pictures -- Psychological aspects. --- Motion pictures -- Social aspects. --- Music, Dance, Drama & Film --- Film --- Motion pictures --- Nature in motion pictures. --- Ecology in motion pictures. --- Cinéma --- Naturfilm. --- Naturen i filmen. --- Ekologi i filmen. --- Ekokritik. --- Film. --- Philosophy. --- Aspect social. --- Aspect psychologique. --- Philosophie. --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects. --- Ecocriticism. --- Ecophilosophy. --- Film studies. --- Film-philosophy. --- Peirce. --- Whitehead.