Film in the Anthropocene: Philosophy, Ecology, and Cybernetics

Chapter 1: Introduction Stepping into the Play Frame: Cinema as Mammalian Communication   

Chapter 2: Janus's Celluloid and Digital Faces: The Existential Cyborg: Autopoi sis in Christopher Nolan's Memento

Chapter 3: Documentary Intertext: Robert Gardner's Dead Birds 1964

Chapter 4: Cinema's Historical Incarnations: Travelling the Möbius Strip of Biotime in Cloud Atlas              

From Novel to Film

Chapter 5: Documentary Intertext: John Marshall's The Hunters 1957

Chapter 6: Janus Speaks: Multicultural Polyvocality: Trinh Minh-ha's The Fourth Dimension and The Digital Film Event

Chapter 7: Documentary Intertext:  Gregory Bateson's and Margaret Mead's Trance and Dance in Bali 1952

Chapter 8: Janus's Interspecies Faces: Biomorphic Transformations in the Ecology of Mind in James Cameron's Avatar

Chapter 9: Documentary Intertext: J. Stephen Lansing's and André Singer's The Goddess and the Computer

Chapter 10: Conclusion: Toward a Transdisciplinary Critical Theory of Film