ecocinema

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From eco- +‎ cinema.

Noun[edit]

ecocinema (uncountable)

  1. (film) A branch of filmmaking and film criticism dealing with the representation of the environment in film.
    • 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 77:
      The academic scholarship on both Wildboyz and Green Porno has been virtually nonexistent heretofore [] . When it comes to Wildboyz, one could attribute this treatment to the program’s youthful intended audience or its general lack of sophistication. But those same features have not stopped ecocritics, ecocinema scholars, or other academics from writing about children’s environmental programming, environmentally themed animation, []

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