The course examines the ethical, political, historic and aesthetic dimensions of Asian Ecocinema (environmental films that engage with the Asia-based global environmental crisis) and discusses the films’ ways of connecting place and planet. First-person accounts, classic and revisionist scholarly works, and literary and visual materials will be used to examine China’s multifaceted transformations both chronologically and thematically, in their socioeconomic, cultural, political, and global contexts.
The course examines the ethical, political, historic and aesthetic dimensions of Asian Ecocinema (environmental films that engage with the Asia-based global environmental crisis) and discusses the films’ ways of connecting place and planet. First-person accounts, classic and revisionist scholarly works, and literary and visual materials will be used to examine China’s multifaceted transformations both chronologically and thematically, in their socioeconomic, cultural, political, and global contexts.
