Eco-Cinema: A Study On Marine Sustainability With Reference To Seaspiracy (A Documentary)

Abstract

Eco-cinema explores the idea of visualization of ecology; ensuring that a film carries an emphatic environmental message. The 21^st century beholds the global phenomenon of global boiling, a crucial culmination of the long-term global warming process. All members of an ecosphere should value every organism. However, certain eco-cinemas are anthropocentric rather than being eco-centric or bio-centric. Eco-cinema fractionates into various types including transnational movies, documentary movies, animated movies, cli-fi movies etc. These movies analyse the setting and landscape in films, ecological analysis and human representations of the environment, the regional or the transnational trauma with regard to the environmental disasters. Sustainable development refers to the development of a society or an environment, managing with the available resources, without compromising the resources for the future generations. The recent movies have started portraying the exploitation of the biospheres in different landscapes like terrestrial life, marine life etc. Seaspiracy is one such documentary film portraying the exploitation of marine life. The present paper analyses how marine sustainability is visualised in the documentary Seaspiracy.