Screening Nature : : Cinema beyond the Human /

Screening Nature : : Cinema beyond the Human / / ed. by Anat Pick, Guinevere Narraway.

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Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed “posthuman cinema.” It comprises key readings...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Armatage, Kay,
Cahill, James Leo,
Chang, Chia-ju,
Eastwood, Steven,
Freeman, Carrie Packwood,
Gomel, Elana,
Ingawanij, May Adadol,
Ingram, David,
Leane, Elizabeth,
Mayer, Sophie,
Molloy, Claire,
Narraway, Guinevere,
Nicol, Stephen,
Panse, Silke,
Pick, Anat,
Rhodes, Geoffrey Alan,
Tulloch, Scott,
HerausgeberIn:
Narraway, Guinevere,
Pick, Anat,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. Intersecting Ecology and Film
  • PART I. ECO-POETICS: FILM, FORM AND THE NATURAL WORLD
  • 1. Three Worlds: Dwelling and Worldhood on Screen
  • 2. Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Ecoaesthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning’s Land Films
  • 3. Land as Protagonist – An Interview with James Benning
  • PART II. ZOE--TROPES: ENVISIONING THE NONHUMAN
  • 4. Anthropomorphism and Its Vicissitudes: Reflections on Homme-sick Cinema
  • 5. Animism and the Performative Realist Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • 6. Was Blind But Now I See: Animal Liberation Documentaries’ Deconstruction of Barriers to Witnessing Injustice
  • 7. Filming the Frozen South: Animals in Early Antarctic Exploration Films
  • PART III. ECO-POLITICS: ENVIRONMENT, IMAGE, IDEOLOGY
  • 8. Dirty Pictures: Framing Pollution and Desire in ‘new New Queer Cinema’
  • 9. Utopia in the Mud: Nature and Landscape in the Soviet Science Fiction Film
  • 10. Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of Nature
  • 11. Buried Land: Filming the Bosnian Pyramids
  • PART IV. ECO-PRAXIS: FILM AS ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE
  • 12. Strange Seeing: Re-viewing Nature in the Films of Rose Lowder
  • 13. The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration: Bae Yong-kyun’s Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East?
  • 14. An Inconvenient Truth: Science and Argumentation in the Expository Documentary Film
  • 15. Planet in Focus: Environmental Film Festivals
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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