Eco-Cinema: China's Environmental and Ecological Crisis

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Facing the ongoing crisis of climate change and environmental degradation, this course remaps China's social-environmental landscape through the camera lens of ecocinema and from the conceptual perspective of ecocriticism. In this class we ask, how might we re-define the relationship between nature and culture beyond binary oppositions and away from anthropocentric perspectives? How should we re-consider environmental issues as transnational and global interactions? In response to these questions, the course invites students to make pragmatic turns, specifically, to the environment, the landscape, the material, and the animal world. 002244