Ekphrasis Journal
Ekphrasis is a semi-annual, double-blind, peer-reviewed online journal of The Faculty of Theater and Television, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj. This journal is dedicated to interdisciplinary approaches in visual culture and publishes peer-reviewed articles from any field related to contemporary media and image related productions. Ekphrasis concentrates both on research and theory, and on practical aspects of the related domains, focusing on cinema, media and cultural studies. We also feature book reviews and interviews as well as practice-based approaches to arts and video arts.
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Intermedial Ecocriticism: The Anthropocene Ecological Crisis across Media and the Arts
Jørgen BRUHN
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This article is an introduction to the edited issue of Ekphrasis that publishes selected and rewritten versions of papers presented at the international conference ”Intermedial Ecocriticism: The Anthropocene Ecological Crisis across Media and the Arts” that took place in Cluj, Romania, in August… Read More
Keywords: Intermediality, media studies, ecocriticism
Larger than Life: Endangered Species across Media in Louis Psihoyos’s Racing Extinction
Alexa WEIK von MOSSNER
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The article investigates Racing Extinction as an argumentative eco-documentary that deliberately embraces intermediality as a visual and narrative strategy to draw attention to a pressing environmental issue: anthropogenic species extinction. Scholars, activists, and artists alike have made the argument tha… Read More
Keywords: extinction, narrative, documentary film, endangered species, intermediality
Representing the Anthropocene: Transmediation of Narratives and Truthfulness from Science to Feature Film
Lars ELLESTRÖM
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the transmediation of scientific articles to very different media types, meaning that the form and content of scientific communication is transformed into other forms of communication – more precisely works of art or entertainment, as exemplified by the media ty… Read More
Keywords: Anthropocene, Climate change, Intermediality, Narration, Science communication, The Day after Tomorrow, Transmediality, Transmediation, Truthfulness
Eco-Intermediality and the Artful Recluse’s Hut: Mizuki Shigeru’s Manga Hōjōki
Daniela KATO
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This article proposes eco-intermediality as a cross-fertilization between what has been the hitherto predominantly thematic orientation of ecocriticism and the more form-oriented concerns of intermediality studies. To explore the transformative potential of this eco-intermedial conceptual framework… Read More
Keywords: adaptation; eco-intermediality; hermits; impermanence; intermediality; manga; Mizuki Shigeru; yōkai
Spectral Toxicity: Atmospheres of Radiation in HBO’s Chernobyl and Svetlana Alexievich’s Voices of Chernobyl
Nicolai SKIVEREN
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This article presents a comparative analysis of HBO’s mini-series Chernobyl (2019) and Svetlana Alexievich’s literary testimonies Voices of Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (1997) – both of which represent the events and the aftermath of the Cher… Read More
Keywords: Chernobyl, Voices of Chernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich, Ecocriticism, Intermediality, Ecomedia, Spectral Toxicity, Atmosphere, Affect, Trans-corporeality, Eco-Horror
Climate Anxiety on YouTube: Young people reflect on how to handle the climate crisis
Hans T STERNUDD
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The material for this study is four YouTube videos that address climate anxiety published during the 2010s and produced by young people. The videos were analysed from an ecocritical perspective using a discourse theoretical framework and focusing on intermedial aspects. All of the videos inform about climat… Read More
Keywords: climate anxiety, YouTube video, climate change communication, medicalisation
Truth Written in Verse: Transmediations of Scientific Discourse in Swedish Ecopoetry
Emma TORNBORG
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The article discusses transmediation of truth claims and truthfulness in ecopoetry and takes as example the poetry collection Permafrostens avtagande (The Declining of the Permafrost, 2007) by Swedish poet Åsa Maria Kraft. The aim of the article is twofold: First, to study how transm… Read More
Keywords: intermediality, transmediation, ecopoetry, truthfulness, truth claims
Spherical encounters of the Anthropocene: from Telescope to Kaleidoscope
Adela MUNTEAN
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Spherical encounters of the Anthropocene refers to the impact of humanity’s global ecological footprint that is addressed through the metaphor of the spheres. The new human-generated Anthropo-Noo-spheres and their interaction with the Spheres of Earth are tackled through ecocritical investiga… Read More
Keywords: sphairopoiia (the art of sphere-making), enviromental reenchantment of the world, overview effect, liminoid, cosmic zoom, dome, anthroposphere, sphere interactions
Adrift in History, Who Is This One?: Art in the Critical Zone
Christine RAMSAY
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This article explores the capacity of art for representing the question of ecological grief now confronting us in the Anthropocene. My art work is an ongoing series of drawings and paintings of dead birds entitled “Adrift in History.” In reflecting on the meaning of this artistic practice throug… Read More
Keywords: Art in the Anthropocene; Ecology of grief; Bird as archetype; North American robin (Turdus migratorius); Jungian psychology; Bakhtinian dialogism
Lost in the Moment: Ephemeral Art as a Creative Strategy to Explore the Anthropocene
Sophie C. KROMHOLZ
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In relation to the wider theme of this journal, this paper explores how ephemeral arts investigate basic ecocritical questions around experience, presence, and loss, through a literal language of fragility and disappearance. Ephemeral art is used here to define a category of artworks which physically exist … Read More
Keywords: ephemeral art, coping, ecocriticism, Anthropocene, loss, human condition
Intermedial Apocalypticism and the Growing Anthropocene Crises
Simon C. ESTOK
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The central concern of “Intermedial Apocalypticism and the Growing Anthropocene Crises” is to understand the complexities involved in answering why, despite the saturation of filmic media with progressive messages about the environment, things continue to get worse. The observations primarily gr… Read More
Keywords: intermedial ecocriticism, activism, ecophobia, climate change narratives
Cinema as Eco-critical Criticism: Can Movies Represent the Conscience of the Anthropocene?
Doru POP
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This paper critically questions the postulate that an ecological conscious cinema performs the task of raising global awareness and generates knowledge about the real problems of the Anthropocene. Interrogating the possibility that a cinematic “eco-mind” could be formed within eco-conscious movi… Read More
Keywords: cinema, eco-criticism, eco-Marxism, environmental humanities, critical thinking, dialectical methods
Friends or Foes – Representations of the Relationship between Man and Nature in Three Different Media Types: Literature, Live Action Film and Animated Film
Liviu LUTAS
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The concept of nature and its relationship to man is crucial in ecocriticism, and has been much debated during the whole existence of the field. In an overview of the short history of ecocriticism, Lawrence Buell (2011) shows how the view on nature has developed since the beginning of ecocriticism in the ea… Read More
Keywords: Intermediality, Ecocriticism, Intermedial Ecocriticism, Woman at War, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Wall-E