Ecocinema, Media, and the Environment

A three hour and fifty minute film set in a gray industrial mining city somewhere in Northeast China, Bo Hu’s first film (he died befor...

In the second brutal cannibal scene in the film, Shane confronts hotel maid Christelle in the hotel employee locker room to (the fil...

In Denis’s Trouble Every Day,  the metaphor of the land as woman is complicated in two ways: Coré becomes both cannibal and cannibali...

In Trouble Every Day,  the connection between Western intruders and post-colonial indigenous populations is complicated only by June’...

Claire Denis’s Paris-centered anti-colonial horror film Trouble Every Day even more explicitly transforms bodies into landscapes. Th...

In American Psycho , however, women’s bodies have been transformed into landscape-like obstacles blocking Christie’s escape. Elizabet...

Women’s bodies also become landscapes captured by Bateman and his video camera in several scenes in American Psycho , as upper-class ...