Do I Know the Anthropocene When I See It?

Jennifer Fay is Professor of Film and English at Vanderbilt University, where she is also chair of the Cinema & Media Arts Department. She is the author of Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the Re-education of Postwar Germany (2008) and Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene (2018), and co-author of Film Noir: Hard-Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization. In spring of 2021, Fay was a Cinepoetics Fellow at the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin.