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Anthroposcreens frames the 'climate unconscious' as a reading strategy for film and television productions during the Anthropocene. Drawing attention to the affects of climate change and the broader environmental damage of the Anthropocene, this study mobilizes its frame in concert with other tools from cultural and film studies-such as debates over Black representation-to provide readings of the underlying environmental themes in Black American and Norwegian screen texts. These bodies of work provide a useful counterpoint to the dominance of white Anglo-American stories in cli-fi while also ranging beyond the boundaries of the cli-fi genre to show how the climate unconscious lens functions in a broader set of texts. Working across film studies, cultural studies, Black studies, and the environmental humanities, Anthroposcreens establishes a cross-disciplinary reading strategy of the 'climate unconscious' for contemporary film and television productions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Climatic changes --- Social aspects. --- Climatic changes in motion pictures. --- Climatic changes in popular culture.

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This book discusses topics on digital cinema, post-cinema, post-continuity, photographic, cinematic, and electronic presence, post-cinematic affect, the economics, politics and ecologies of post-cinema.

Motion pictures --- Digital media --- History

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"For three decades award-winning independent filmmaker Todd Haynes, who emerged in the early 1990s as a foundational figure in New Queer Cinema, has gained critical recognition for his outsider perspective. Today, Haynes is widely known for bringing women's stories to the screen. Analyzing Haynes's films such as Safe (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Far from Heaven (2002), and Carol (2015), the television miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), and his unauthorized Karen Carpenter biopic Superstar (1989), the contributors to Reframing Todd Haynes reassess his work in light of his longstanding feminist commitments and his exceptional career as a director of women's films. They present multiple perspectives on Haynes's film and television work and on his role as an artist-activist who draws on academic theorizations of gender and cinema. The volume illustrates the influence of feminist theory on Haynes's aesthetic vision, most evident in his persistent interest in the political and formal possibilities afforded by the genre of the woman's film. The contributors contend that no consideration of Haynes's work can afford to ignore the crucial place of feminism within it. Contributors. Danielle Bouchard, Nick Davis, Jigna Desai, Mary R. Desjardins, Patrick Flanery, Theresa L. Geller, Rebecca M. Gordon, Jess Issacharoff, Lynne Joyrich, Bridget Kies, Julia Leyda, David E. Maynard, Noah A. Tsika, Patricia White, Sharon Willis"--

Motion picture producers and directors --- Queer theory --- Feminism and motion pictures --- In motion pictures. --- Haynes, Todd --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Cuteness is one of the most culturally pervasive aesthetics of the new millennium and its rapid social proliferation suggests that the affective responses it provokes find particular purchase in a contemporary era marked by intensive media saturation and spreading economic precarity. Rejecting superficial assessments that would deem the ever-expanding plethora of cute texts trivial, "The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness" directs serious scholarly attention from a variety of academic disciplines to this ubiquitous phenomenon. The sheer plasticity of this minor aesthetic is vividly on display in this collection which draws together analyses from around the world examining cuteness's fundamental role in cultural expressions stemming from such diverse sources as military cultures, high-end contemporary art worlds, and animal shelters. Pushing beyond prevailing understandings that associate cuteness solely with childhood or which posit an interpolated parental bond as its primary affective attachment, the essays in this collection variously draw connections between cuteness and the social, political, economic, and technological conditions of the early 21st century and in doing so generate fresh understandings of the central role cuteness plays in the recalibration of contemporary subjectivities.

Aesthetics, Modern --- Aesthetics, Modern. --- Animals --- Charm. --- Childishness. --- Human-animal relationships. --- Miscellanea. --- 2000-2099. --- Esthétique --- Sociologie de la culture