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Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction considers nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advances an understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility. Diving i...
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16 December 2025

Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction considers nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advances an understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility. Diving into little-known archives to explore films that resonate across geographies, Becca Voelcker unearths key examples of eco-political counterculture, from farmer-filmmakers in Japan and Mali to a gardener-filmmaker in Massachusetts, and from filmed landscape-portraits of women in Los Angeles, Orkney, and the Navajo Nation to Indigenous documentaries about land dispossession in Colombia. Proposing "land cinema" as an urgent genre for our time, this book reveals how images and ideas produced half a century ago sowed the seeds for climate justice movements today.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 296
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
16 December 2025
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9780520416444
Format: Hardcover
"This masterful synthesis of the issues of an earlier period from a forward-looking perspective focused on the needs of twenty-first-century witnesses to the extractive practices of the present is quite welcome."
Becca Voelcker is Lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was named a BBC New Generation Thinker in 2024.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Language
Prologue
Introduction
1 • Poets of the Land: The Subjects of Landscape-Portraits
2 • Farmer-Filmmakers, Fieldwork, and Growth
3 • There Is No Countryside: The Anti-Pastoral
4 • Companion Planting in Wounded Land
5 • On the Picket Line, on the Television: Representation, Empathy, and Distance
6 • Extraction Is Stealing, Relationships Give Meaning
Selected Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Note on Language
Prologue
Introduction
1 • Poets of the Land: The Subjects of Landscape-Portraits
2 • Farmer-Filmmakers, Fieldwork, and Growth
3 • There Is No Countryside: The Anti-Pastoral
4 • Companion Planting in Wounded Land
5 • On the Picket Line, on the Television: Representation, Empathy, and Distance
6 • Extraction Is Stealing, Relationships Give Meaning
Selected Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index