ABSTRACT
This afterword considers the “sequel effect” of this second collection on the first volume of essays and how both volumes together contribute to the wider field of environmental media studies. By expanding the field of inquiry and finding new genealogies of thought and traditions of critique, Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2 redefines what ecocinema studies are and, in retrospect, was. The urgencies of the first collection may now be understood as among the founding problems of ecological media studies—namely, the problem of perception. This collection is written in the context of a planetary crisis in which cinema is fully implicated. This essay concludes by urging more sequels so that the story of ecocinema studies and this field’s commitment to critique may continue.
