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Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first 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. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.

Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism --- Social Science / Popular Culture --- Performing arts --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art

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While the so-called material turn in the humanities and the social sciences has inspired a vibrant discourse on objects, things, and the concept of materiality in general, less attention has been paid to materials, particularly in cultural studies scholarship. With each of its chapters taking a particular material as its point of departure, this volume offers a palette of fresh approaches to materials within the realm of cultural studies. The contributors call for a materials-based perspective on culture, which has become all the more pertinent by the need for sustainability in times of climate change, energy crisis, conflict, migration, and the lingering coronavirus pandemic.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Art. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Culture. --- Material Culture. --- Media. --- Society.

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Als Konsequenz aus der Kritik an ethnisierenden Kulturbegriffen baut Klaus P. Hansen seit Ende der 2000er-Jahre seine Kultur- zur Kollektivtheorie um. Statt kulturelle Standardisierungen mehr oder weniger unreflektiert Ethnien oder Nationen zuzuschreiben, stellt er explizit die Frage nach den Kulturträgern selbst: Kollektive jeder Form, Größe und Struktur. Im Zentrum dieses Denkens stehen intra- und transkollektive Gemeinsamkeiten, Mehrfachzugehörigkeiten und die unauflösbare Spannung zwischen Homogenisierungs- und Heterogenisierungsprozessen. Die Beiträger*innen dieser Festschrift für Klaus P. Hansen kommentieren den Kollektivansatz aus verschiedensten disziplinären Perspektiven und denken ihn konstruktiv weiter.

Collectivism. --- Cultural History. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Heterogenization. --- Homogenization. --- Social Theory. --- Sociological Theory. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.

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How are im/mobilities articulated, imagined and practiced in relation to multiple futures? A critical examination of im/mobilities raises questions as to how power relations and crisis-driven futures enable, inhibit or prevent mobility, what meanings are culturally constructed around im/mobilities and how they are experienced. The contributors to this volume look at entangled future mobilities and immobilities using humanities and social science approaches in diverse examples: Afrofuturist poetry, de-extinction projects, dystopian novels, a Uruguayan planned relocation program, lives of rural Zambian women, climate adaptation in Morocco and Austrian financial literacy policy.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Culture. --- Entanglements. --- Future. --- Immobility. --- Literary Studies. --- Migration. --- Society.

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The romance of extraction underlies and partly defines Western modernity and our cultural imaginaries. Combining affect studies and environmental humanities, this volume analyzes societies' devotion to extraction and fossil resources. This devotion is shaped by a nostalgic view on settler colonialism as well as by contemporary »affective economies«. The contributors examine the links between forms of extractivism and gendered discourses of sentimentality and the ways in which cultural narratives and practices deploy the sentimental mode (in plots of attachment, sacrifice, and suffering) to promote or challenge extractivism.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Capitalism. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Theory. --- Culture. --- Environment. --- Gender. --- Global Sentimentality. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Nature. --- Sustainability.