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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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In God's land

cinematic affect, animation, and the perceptual dilemmas of slow violence

Salma Monani

pp. 11-31

Abstract

This chapter examines Pankaj Rishi Kumar's documentary feature In God"s Land (2012). In extending literary critic Rob Nixon's (2010) notion of 'slow violence" to cinema, it considers how a postcolonial Indian filmmaker uses animation to mediate socio-environmental injustices that are not spectacular but instead accumulate over long periods of time. In illuminating In God"s Land's dark and discordant mode of animation, I also suggest that such postcolonial cinema expands eco-film scholarship's current preoccupations with primarily Western/Japanese animation and with its predominant focus on animation as playful. In all, the essay argues for furthering our understanding of Indian and eco-animation.

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Published in:

K. Alex Rayson (2016) Ecodocumentaries: critical essays. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 11-31

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56224-1_2

Full citation:

Monani Salma (2016) „In God's land: cinematic affect, animation, and the perceptual dilemmas of slow violence“, In: R. K. alex (ed.), Ecodocumentaries, Dordrecht, Springer, 11–31.