This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies has matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research.

Stephen Rust is a Senior Instructor of English at the University of Oregon. He is co-editor of Ecocinema Theory and Practice (2013) and Ecomedia: Key Issues (2016) and an advisory board member of Media+Environment and the Journal of Environmental Media. He has published several articles in the field and is currently writing an ecocritical analysis of Merchant Ivory Productions.

Salma Monani is a Professor at Gettysburg College's Environmental Studies department. She has extensively published on explorations of Indigenous ecomedia, film, and environmental justice, and is co-editor of three ecocritical media anthologies. She is currently writing a monograph on Indigenous Ecocinema. As part of her college's Land Acknowledgment Committee, her scholarship also engages the practice of digital, public eco-humanities along with community research with Indigenous partners.

Seán Cubitt is a Professor of Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne. His publications include The Cinema Effect (2004), Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies (2016), and Anecdotal Evidence: Ecocritique from Hollywood to the Mass Image (2020). Co-editor of Ecomedia: Key Issues (2016), and series editor for Leonardo Books, he researches the history and philosophy of media, ecopolitical aesthetics, media arts and technologies, and media art history.

Part 1: Ecocinema Materialities 1. Unsustainable cinema: global supply chains 2. Greening Mexican cinema 3. Energy and exhaustion in a coal melodrama: Kaala Patthar (1979) 4. The sustainable audiovisual industry in Catalonia seen through the Green Shooting initiative Part 2: Ecocinema Discourses 5. Extraction and wild cinema in Africa 6. Polytemporality in the slow ecocinema of Lav Diaz: an installation in a trauma field 7. Exploring SF ecocinema: gender, infrastructure, and US/China dynamics in Interstellar and The Wandering Earth 8. Keaton's chimera, or the comic assemblage of mountains 9. The matrix of ecomedia: fan worlds as environments Part 3: Ecocinema Communities 10. Indigenous cosmologies and communities: the digital art of Johnathan Thunder and Missy Whiteman 11. Of toxic dust and sad places: ecochronicity and debility in Julio Hernández Cordón's Polvo (Dust, 2012) 12. Indigenous post-apocalyptic filmmaking at Standing Rock 13. Blurry streams: the pandemic film festival 14. Seeing locally, expressing globally: participatory filmmaking and aesthetics Afterword: The sequel-effect