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Ecocinema Theories in the Age of Posthumanism: Neuroaesthetic, Speculative Realist, and Process-Relational Ontological Perspectives

  • Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • 2023, 80(3), pp.501-536
  • DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.80.3.202308.501
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : July 11, 2023
  • Accepted : August 8, 2023
  • Published : August 31, 2023

Je cheol Park 1

1한국예술종합학교

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ABSTRACT

As a field of research that explores various aspects of the relationship between cinema, natural world, and nonhuman animal, ecocinema studies has been actively developed in the 21st century. As seen in the proposal of a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene, since the end of the 20th century, there has been a heightened awareness of the ecological crisis of the Earth. In line with this, a diversity of nonhuman and posthuman perspectives have been actively proposed in the humanities that aim to complement, supplement, dismantle, or transcend anthropocentrism. This tendency has also promoted a vital development of ecocinema studies in a variety of ways. As such, ecocinema studies, going beyond offering a thematic criticism of films that deal with natural environments, develops various sophisticated theoretical explorations on how films can mediate the interactions between the human and the natural environment in a nonanthropocentric way. This paper focuses on the three main theoretical trends of ecocinema theory including neuroaesthetic, speculative realist, and process-relational ontological ones and critically compares and analyzes these three. In doing so, I argue that each of the three theorizes how cinema can offer the human an ecological power to address the crisis in the Earth’s ecoystem by providing the human viewer a nonanthropocentric film experience of the world. I also argue that there are significant differences between the three trends and among the theories belonging to each trend, and that these differences depend on what philosophical position each theory adopts, how it theorizes the human viewer’s film experience, and how it examines the impact of digital and computational technologies on the anthropocentric film experience.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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