Ecocinema Studies’ Multiverse: Hollywood, Indigenous Cinema, and More

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Department 1

Environmental Studies

Abstract

A few weeks ago, the quote above from a 2014 Facebook post cycled into my feed. It made me chuckle now, as it had then almost ten years ago. I remember that the student was writing about Her, the 2013 critically acclaimed Hollywood film about Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) falling in love with his virtual assistant Samantha (Scarlett Johansson). Apple’s Siri had just been launched on iPhones, and director Spike Jonze’s story sped us into an imagined near-future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) had evolved to be gorgeously sentient and emotive. Her was intentionally meant to raise ethical questions of what it means to have sentient machines and thus, what it means to be “human” in our present moment. [excerpt]

DOI

10.1353/res.2022.a904103

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