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Das Ziel dieser Lehrveranstaltung ist es, Studierende mit den vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Medien und Umwelt anhand ökokritischer Zugänge zur Filmwissenschaft vertraut zu machen.

This course sets out to explore the manifold ways in which cinema mediates our notions of environment: How do films capture, document, preserve, or fossilize our imagination of environment? How do filmic images project, develop, construct and destruct environment? We will examine movies from a broad range of film genres (that include wildlife documentary, dystopian action film, melodrama, experimental and activist video art) and all periods of film history. Our discussions will be guided by three overarching questions that address the location, relation and experience of environment. How does cinema mediate between material, psychic, social and symbolic domains of environment? What models of mediation does the medium film offer and how can these models help us understand environmental ecologies? How does the cinematic experience mediate ecologies of perceptions and ideas?

The seminar is organized in conjunction with the internaional conference Mountains & Cineme (Oct. 14-17): https://www.uibk.ac.at/projects/mountaincinema/index.html.en

Presentations, discussions, reading and writing assignments.

Active participation, presentation, research paper/response paper.

Ecomedia: Key Issues, ed. by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani and Sean Cubitt (Routledge, 2016)

Prerequisite for the Master Program (812): none

The seminar "SE American Film, Media and Culture I" can be attended as the "SE American Literature and Culture II". If you wish to obtain credits for both seminars, the seminars' contents must differ substantially.

For the Teacher Training Program (Lehramtsstudium: 344): SE2: American Literature and Culture.

Due to substantial differences in the allocation of ECTS-Credits in various curricula (teacher training program - BA/MA English and American Studies), the requirements for this course vary. Information will be provided by the instructor at the beginning of the course.