Chapter 1

An Introduction to Oceans, Seas and Shorelines on Film

Hsin Hsieh and Vivienne Westbrook

Chapter 2

Navigating Cultural Significance. Seas as Transcultural Semiotic Codes in Translational Cinema

Kyoung-suk Sung

Chapter 3

Seascapes of Malayalam Cinema: Tracing Coastal Imaginaries from Chemmeen to the Present

Anna Jyothi James and Shalini M

Chapter 4

Seawater and Resources in Japanese Cinema: Spectacles and Impact

Hsin Hsieh

Chapter 5

Spectacle, Sublimity and Environment – The Hollywood Maritime Blockbuster

Mark Fryers

Chapter 6

What Lurks Beneath: Sharks, Ocean-themed Horror and Other Anthropocene Boundary Objects

Susan Hopkins, Kate Judith, Marcus Harmes and Jessica Gildersleeve

Chapter 7

The Post-anthropocentric Eco-horrors of Revenge: The Beach House (2019) and TV Series Silent Sea (2021) - Water That Kills

Katarzyna Ostalska

Chapter 8

What the Sea Said: Reading Aparna Sen’s Yugant as an Eco-cinema Foregrounding Oceanic Crises

Barsha Santra

Chapter 9

Embedded Environmentalism in Ocean Disaster Eco-cinema

JeongWon Bourdais Park

Chapter 10

Affective Ecology in The Swarm: Attuning to more-than-human oceans of the Anthropocene

Dongyang Li

Chapter 11

Digitritus, or The Growing Cloud of Digital Waste: JONAH and the Entangled Ethics of Filmmaking

Mike Hart