The ecological concern has recently raised the interest of international film scholars. Scott MacDonald used the term eco cinema to categorize films reflecting the need to develop sustainable forms of coexistence with natural environment. Cinema as a form of discourse looks at the relations of human beings to nonhuman entities and their shared environment which traditionally is believed to be instrumental to humans. How does film reflect this dualism?
Looking at films from various genres and periods the concern is not so much how they deal with environmental issues on a narrative level but on how their aesthetics relate to the ethical questions. Climate catastrophies, immersive woodland experiences as well as the field of human-animal relationships will be explored.