Syllabus Spring 2023
HOME BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
Erika Kiss, Princeton University
ECS 389 / CHV 389 / HUM 389 / ENV 389
Environmental Film Studies: Research Film Studio Class #41709
In the interface of environmental and film studies, this multidisciplinary course investigates the
phenomenology of home in relation to the environment and a the civilizational (both cultural and
technological) paradigms of colonizing versus nomadic homemaking through examples from
masterpieces of cinema and our own short research film exercises.
Introduction: Home Beyond Good and Evil
The Nomad and the Settler
The Anarchitect
The Odyssey of the American Mind
The Homeless
David Graeber, David Wengrow
(2021)
“In wildness is the preservation of the world.”
