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 the new term ""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.
By:
Becca Voelcker
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9780520416451
ISBN 10: 0520416457
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 21 March 2026
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Becca Voelcker is Lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was named a BBC New Generation Thinker in 2024.
