Anat Pick lectures in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Her book Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film was published by Columbia University Press (2011).

"The writers here make you see the world inside and outside of the cinema anew. Screening Nature contains ideas that are as varied and colourful as birds' feathers. This is an important book that pushes cinema forward."  ·  Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize"From Avatar to Zen, this remarkable collection of essays goes everywhere in the contemporary film environment to discover remarkable things about what that medium can tell us about ecology. It's fully cognizant of philosophical and theoretical developments in the field, generously global in scope and inclusive of the myriad nonhumans who coexist with us and our films."  ·  Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Intersecting Ecology and FilmAnat Pick and Guinevere NarrawayPart I: Eco-poetics: Film, Form, and the Natural WorldChapter 1. Three Worlds: Dwelling and Worldhood on ScreenAnat PickChapter 2. Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Eco-aesthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning’s Land FilmsSilke PanseChapter 3. Land as Protagonist – An Interview with James BenningSilke PansePart II: Zoë-tropes: Envisioning the NonhumanChapter 4. Anthropomorphism and Its Vicissitudes: Reflections on Homme-sick CinemaJames Leo CahillChapter 5. Animism and the Performative Realist Cinema of Apichatpong WeerasethakulMay Adadol IngawanijChapter 6. Was Blind But Now I See: Animal Liberation Documentaries’ Deconstruction of Barriers to Witnessing InjusticeCarrie Packwood Freeman and Scott TullochChapter 7. Filming the Frozen South: Animals in Early Antarctic Exploration FilmsElizabeth Leane and Steve NicolPart III: Eco-politics: Environment, Image, IdeologyChapter 8. Dirty Pictures: Framing Pollution and Desire in ‘new New Queer Cinema’Sophie MayerChapter 9. Utopia in the Mud: Nature and Landscape in the Soviet Science Fiction FilmElana GomelChapter 10. Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of NatureClaire MolloyChapter 11. Buried Land: Filming the Bosnian PyramidsSteven Eastwood and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes    Part IV: Eco-praxis: Film as Environmental PracticeChapter 12. Strange Seeing: Re-viewing Nature in the Films of Rose LowderGuinevere NarrawayChapter 13. The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration: Bae Yong-kyun’s Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the EastChia-Ju ChangChapter 14. An Inconvenient Truth: Science and Argumentation in the Expository Documentary FilmDavid IngramChapter 15. Planet in Focus: Environmental Film FestivalsKay ArmatageNotes on ContributorsIndex

Anat Pick lectures in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Her book Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film was published by Columbia University Press (2011).

"The writers here make you see the world inside and outside of the cinema anew. Screening Nature contains ideas that are as varied and colourful as birds' feathers. This is an important book that pushes cinema forward."  ·  Apichatpong Weerasethakul, winner of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize"From Avatar to Zen, this remarkable collection of essays goes everywhere in the contemporary film environment to discover remarkable things about what that medium can tell us about ecology. It's fully cognizant of philosophical and theoretical developments in the field, generously global in scope and inclusive of the myriad nonhumans who coexist with us and our films."  ·  Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Intersecting Ecology and FilmAnat Pick and Guinevere NarrawayPart I: Eco-poetics: Film, Form, and the Natural WorldChapter 1. Three Worlds: Dwelling and Worldhood on ScreenAnat PickChapter 2. Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Eco-aesthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning’s Land FilmsSilke PanseChapter 3. Land as Protagonist – An Interview with James BenningSilke PansePart II: Zoë-tropes: Envisioning the NonhumanChapter 4. Anthropomorphism and Its Vicissitudes: Reflections on Homme-sick CinemaJames Leo CahillChapter 5. Animism and the Performative Realist Cinema of Apichatpong WeerasethakulMay Adadol IngawanijChapter 6. Was Blind But Now I See: Animal Liberation Documentaries’ Deconstruction of Barriers to Witnessing InjusticeCarrie Packwood Freeman and Scott TullochChapter 7. Filming the Frozen South: Animals in Early Antarctic Exploration FilmsElizabeth Leane and Steve NicolPart III: Eco-politics: Environment, Image, IdeologyChapter 8. Dirty Pictures: Framing Pollution and Desire in ‘new New Queer Cinema’Sophie MayerChapter 9. Utopia in the Mud: Nature and Landscape in the Soviet Science Fiction FilmElana GomelChapter 10. Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of NatureClaire MolloyChapter 11. Buried Land: Filming the Bosnian PyramidsSteven Eastwood and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes    Part IV: Eco-praxis: Film as Environmental PracticeChapter 12. Strange Seeing: Re-viewing Nature in the Films of Rose LowderGuinevere NarrawayChapter 13. The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration: Bae Yong-kyun’s Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the EastChia-Ju ChangChapter 14. An Inconvenient Truth: Science and Argumentation in the Expository Documentary FilmDavid IngramChapter 15. Planet in Focus: Environmental Film FestivalsKay ArmatageNotes on ContributorsIndex