Film and the Natural Environment: Stories and Atmospheres

Environmental themes are present in cinema more than ever before.

But the relationship between film and the natural world is a long and complex one, not reducible to issues such as climate change and pollution.

The volume demonstrates how an awareness of natural features and dynamics can enhance our understanding of three key film-studies topics - narrative, genre, and national cinema.

It does so by drawing on examples from a broad historical and geographical spectrum, including 'Sunrise', 'A River Called Titas', and 'Profound Desires of the Gods.' The first introductory text on a topic which has long been overlooked in the discipline, 'Film and the Natural Environment' argues that the nonhuman world can be understood not just as a theme but as a creative resource available to all filmmakers.