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Ecocinema, Slow Violence, and Environmental Ethics: Tales of Water

Mridha, Shibaji
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1555608601107401

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2019, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
In the epoch of Anthropocene, scholars of environmental ethics urge a radical reevaluation of our understanding of ecosystems and a platform of protest to fight against the slow violence triggered by human-caused environmental disaster omnipresent across the globe. One of the effective means to achieving this goal is to foreground the cognitive and emotive value of ecocinema in furthering both ecocentric imagination and discourse. In a media-saturated, fast world, by forming an alternative media-spectatorship/readership, ecocinema can potentially help create an ecocentric environmental ethics, allowing us to question long-held notions of anthropocentrism, speciesism, and other ecological issues of both biotic and non-biotic entities. Analyzing the films, A Plastic Ocean, Silent River, Ponyo, and The Shape of Water, that essentially foreground tales of water, this thesis explores the complex portrayal of water in an attempt to investigate its agency and dynamism, revealing to humans the problems connected with their strong anthropocentric ethics. This thesis, therefore, examines the authority of ecocinema in its capacity to ignite a respect for nature and reciprocity in humans towards the non-human world. In the process, it proposes the efficacy of pluralistic eco-aesthetics of ecocinema in creating a powerful cultural and political visual narrative, making environmental slow violence perceptible to human imagination and taking us one step further to environmental justice activism.
Ryan Hediger (Advisor)
83 p.
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Ecocinema; Slow Violence; Environmental Ethics; Water Ethic; Elemental Ecocriticism; Revenge of the Thing

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  • Mridha, S. (2019). Ecocinema, Slow Violence, and Environmental Ethics: Tales of Water [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1555608601107401

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Mridha, Shibaji. Ecocinema, Slow Violence, and Environmental Ethics: Tales of Water. 2019. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1555608601107401.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Mridha, Shibaji. "Ecocinema, Slow Violence, and Environmental Ethics: Tales of Water." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1555608601107401

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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