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East Asian cinemas
East Asian TV
ecocinemas
ecocriticism
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film and environmentalism
film and the Anthropocene
forthcoming
TV and ecocriticism
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- ISBN 9781399553452
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Shedding light on the regional scale between the national cinema framework and the planetary perspective, East Asian Ecocinema: Between Nation and Planet argues for the importance of East Asia as a critical space for cinematic ecocriticism.
Drawing on the influential work of Sheldon Lu and Jiayan Mi on Sinophone ecocinema, and Tommy Gustafsson and Pietari Kääpä’s transnational approach, the book brings together diverse perspectives that examine ecocinema in both national and transnational contexts.
Through promoting inter-East Asian conversations, the essays collectively reveal how films from East Asia can reframe global environmental discourse, decentering Hollywood and expanding ecocinema’s conceptual horizons.
Yuta Kaminishi is an assistant professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. His work appears in Journal of Anime and Manga Studies, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema and Screen Bodies. Dr Jeff Kyong-McClain is the director of the Habib Institute for Asian Studies and an associate professor of history at the University of Idaho. He is co-editor of From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on Sino-American Cultural Exchange (2023) and Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization (2022).
