This collection of essays brings together the study of cultural adaptations and environmental studies—thus the coined term “ecoadaptation”—to explore how elements of the natural world and the environment are represented and adapted in a variety of media. Emerging from the 2023 Literature and Film Association conference in Montana, this volume responds to the urgent call for a “green movement in adaptation studies,” as proposed by scholars like Kyle Meikle and Robert Geal. The essays delve into critical questions such as: What is the nature of adaptation? How do our stories about nature evolve across time and media? How do environmentally-focused adaptations influence public responses to climate change? Contributors examine how narratives about the natural world intersect with issues of race, gender, and class, and how non-narrative art forms replicate and adapt nature. This collection also explores the transformation and appropriation of Indigenous narratives about nature. This book is essential for scholars and students in ecocriticism, adaptation studies, literature, film and television studies, art history, and environmental literature. It offers a groundbreaking perspective on the intersection of adaptation and environmental studies, illustrating the evolving landscape of adaptation studies.
Chapter 1: What is Ecoadaptation And Why Should We Care.
Chapter 2: Is
Adaptation Natural Ecocritical Repercussions of Conceptualizing Adaptation as
Memetic Evolution andor as ReIterations in the Signifying Chain.
Chapter 3:
A History of Urgency Cultural Transformations and Ecological Reflections in
Czech Environmental Documentaries.
Chapter 4: The Gloom in the Attic Fungal
Networks as Ecofeminist Adaptation Studies.
Chapter 5: GeoEcolocating and
BioBoomeranging Rayco Pulido Rodríguezs Nela as Ecoadaptation of Galdoss
Marianela.
Chapter 6: I Can Hear the Glaciers Melting Tom Stoppards Radio
Drama Darkside and the Exploration of Ecological Ethics via Pink Floyds The
Dark Side of the Moon.
Chapter 7: The Ark of the Moral Universe Recycling
Genesis Towards Environmental Justice.
Chapter 8: Posters of the Sea and
Land Indexing Environmental Change in Alexander Abelas Ecological Adaptation
of Macbeth.
Chapter 9: Indigos Challenge to The Tempest Explorations in
Ecophenomenology.
Chapter 10: A Huge Mass in a Single Hand Yellowstone and
the Selling of Montana.
Chapter 11: This is Indigenous Land Adapting and
Protesting Colonialist Discourses through Graffiti in Forte Dos Reis Magos
Brazil.
Chapter 12: The Dead Dont Die and Zombies Dont Run Adapting the
Zombie Apocalypse to Slow Cinema.
Chapter 13: Settler Ecologies and Western
Adaptation Unfitting Characters in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Chapter 14:
Against Nature Queering the Romcom.
Chapter 15: Biocinemimicry in The
Birds.
Chapter 16: Material Worlds Seventeenth Century Vanitas Still Life
and Contemporary Environmental Art.
Chapter 17: The Nature of Experience and
the Experience of Nature in Proteus Artifact Edition.
Pamela Demory, PhD, is Lecturer Emerita from the University of California at Davis. She has worked in the field of adaptation studies for thirty years. Her published work includes articles and book chapters on queer adaptation, Dickinson, Moonlight, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Queer as Folk, Twilight, Pride and Prejudice, Wise Blood, and Apocalypse Now. She has edited two previous volumes of critical essays: Queer Love in Film and Television (with Christopher Pullen, 2013) and Queer/Adaptation (2019).
