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.