Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Literary to Cinematic Ecocriticism -- PART I: ECOCINEMA AS AND FOR ACTIVISM -- The Rhetoric of Ascent in An Inconvenient Truth and Everything's Cool -- Shifting Paradigms: From Environmentalist Films to Ecocinema -- Ecocinema, Ecojustice, and Indigenous Worldviews: Native and First Nations Media as Cultural Recovery -- PART II: BODIES THAT MATTER: ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN FICTION AND DOCUMENTARY FILMS -- Testimonial Structures in Environmental Justice Films -- Disposable Bodies: Biocolonialism in The Constant Gardener and Dirty Pretty Things -- Engaging the Land/Positioning the Spectator: Environmental Justice Documentaries and Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer and A River Runs Through It -- PART III: POSITIONING ECOSYSTEMS IN FICTION, DOCUMENTARY, AND ANIMATION -- The Landscape's Lie: Class, Economy, and Ecology in Hotel Rwanda -- Fast, Furious, and Out of Control: The Erasure of Natural Landscapes in Car Culture Films -- The Screaming Silence: Constructions of Nature in Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man -- Bambi and Finding Nemo: A Sense of Wonder in the Wonderful World of Disney? -- PART IV: ART CINEMA ECO-AUTEURS -- The Rules of the World: Japanese Ecocinema and Kiyoshi Kurosawa -- Beyond the Frame: The Spirit of Place in Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.