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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Part I
Dobrin, Sidney, and Sean Morey, eds. Ecosee: Image, Rhetoric, Nature. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2009. Print. Read Introduction, Chapter 1, and Conclusion.
During, Lisa and Deborah Levitt. “Film Theory.” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 2009 17.1 (2009): 87-124. Print.
Garrard, Greg. “Ecocriticism.” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 17 (2009): 1-35. Print.
Heise, Ursula. Sense of Place, Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print. Read Chapter 4.

Ivakhiv, Adrian. “Green Film Criticism and its Futures.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 15.2 (2008): 1-28. Print.
Lu, Sheldon. Chinese Ecocinema: In the Age of Environmental Challenge. University of Washington P, 2010. Read the Introduction.
Shoard, Catherine. http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/15/eco-documentaries-cove-vanishing-bees
Willoquet, Paula, ed. Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2010. Print. Read Introduction and Chapter 2: Shifting Paradigms.

Part II
Ecocinema’s Materialities
Cubitt, Sean. Eco Media. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005. Print. Read the Introduction, and Conclusion.
Murray, Robin, and Joseph Huemann. Ecology and Popular Film: Cinema on the Edge. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2009. Print. Read the Introduction.
Maxwell, Richard and Toby Miller. “Ecological Ethics and Media Technology.” International Journal of Communication 2 (2008): 331-358.
Ivakhiv, Adrian. “Green Film Criticism and its Futures.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 15.2 (2008): 1-28. Print.

Risk, Environmental Justice, Eco-cosmopolitanism, and the Global-Local Nexus
Hageman, Andrew and Sharada Balachandran-Orihuela. “The Virtual Realities of U.S./Mexico Border Ecologies in Maquilapolis and Sleep Dealer” Environmental Communication: The Journal of Nature and Culture. (forthcoming; though I should be able to get a copy, since I edited the special collection)
Willoquet-Marcondi, Paula. Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2010. Print. Read Part II, Cory Shaman’s “Testimonial Structures” and Rachel Stein’s “Disposable Bodies.”

Animal Studies
Jeong, Seung-Hoon and Dudley Andrew. “Grizzly ghost: Herzog, Bazin and the cinematic animal.” Screen (2008) 49 (1): 1-12.
Ladino, Jennifer K. “For the Love of Nature: Documenting Life, Death, and Animality in Grizzly Man and March of the Penguins.” Interdisciplinary Study of Literature and Environment (2009) 16 (1): 53-90.
Neimanis, Astrida. “Becoming-Grizzly: Bodily Molecularity and the Animal that Becomes.” PhaenEx, 2.2 (2007)

SUGGESTED FILMOGRAPHY BASED ON THE READINGS

  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • Dirty Pretty Things
  • Erin Brockovich
  • Fenceline: A Company Town Divided
  • Food Inc.
  • Grizzly Man
  • Maquiladoras
  • March of the Penguins
  • Sleep Dealer
  • The Constant Gardener
  • The Cove

Additional readings can be found in the Bibliography list on the Ecomedia Studies website Resources page (http://www.ecomediastudies.org/resources/bibliography/).