The Cinematic Footprint : : Lights, Camera, Natural Resources / / Nadia Bozak.
Film is often used to represent the natural landscape and, increasingly, to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even today’s “green” movies are ecologically unsustainable production, distribution, and consumption processes. Noting how seemingly immaterial moving images are supported by...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 1 photograph |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Energy -- Chapter 2. Resource -- Chapter 3. Extraction -- Chapter 4. Excess -- Chapter 5. Waste -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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Summary: | Film is often used to represent the natural landscape and, increasingly, to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even today’s “green” movies are ecologically unsustainable production, distribution, and consumption processes. Noting how seemingly immaterial moving images are supported by highly durable resource-dependent infrastructures, The Cinematic Footprint traces the history of how the “hydrocarbon imagination” has been central to the development of film as a medium. Nadia Bozak’s innovative fusion of film studies and environmental studies makes provocative connections between the disappearance of material resources and the emergence of digital media—with examples ranging from early cinema to Dziga Vertov’s prescient eye, from Chris Marker’s analog experiments to the digital work of Agnès Varda, James Benning, and Zacharias Kunuk. Combining an analysis of cinema technology with a sensitive consideration of film aesthetics, The Cinematic Footprint offers a new perspective on moving images and the natural resources that sustain them. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780813551968 9783110688610 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9780813551968 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Nadia Bozak. |