How can we think about the relationship between cinema and the environment beyond the realm of representation? Building off the "material turn" in media studies, which attends to the substances that compose media, in this talk I explore Mexican cinema through a material lens. As an industry that has long been funded by state oil revenue, what would it mean to decarbonize Mexican cinema? To get at this question, I spotlight recent efforts to disentangle cinema and oil by filmmakers and film distributors.

Carolyn Fornoff is an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies in the Romance Studies department. She has coedited two books in the environmental humanities: Timescales: Thinking Across Ecological Temporalities (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and Pushing Past the Human in Latin American Cinema (SUNY Press, 2021).

Cosponsor: Romance Studies Department

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