Film in the Anthropocene

Philosophy, Ecology, and Cybernetics - Previously published in hardcover

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White, Daniel

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

341 Seiten

Englisch

Springererschienen am19.01.2019Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of film in the context of the Anthropocene: the new geological era in which human beings have collectively become a force of nature.mehr

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KlappentextThis book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of film in the context of the Anthropocene: the new geological era in which human beings have collectively become a force of nature.

Details

ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-06569-0

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Springer

Erscheinungsjahr2019

Erscheinungsdatum19.01.2019

AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018

Seiten341 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht465 g

IllustrationenXIV, 341 p. 2 illus.

Artikel-Nr.52006983

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GenrePhilosophie/Religion/Geisteswissenschaften

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Stepping into the Play Frame-Cinema as Mammalian Communication.- 2. Janus´s Celluloid and Digital Faces: The Existential Cyborg-AutopoieÌsis in Christopher Nolan´s Memento.- 3. Documentary Intertext: Robert Gardner´s Dead Birds 1964.- 4. Cinema´s Historical Incarnations: Traveling the Möbius Strip of Biotime in Cloud Atlas.- 5. Documentary Intertext: John Marshall, The Hunters 1957.- 6. Janus East and West: Multicultural Polyvocality-Trinh Minh-ha´s The Fourth Dimension and The Digital Film.- 7. Documentary Intertext: Trance and Dance in Bali 1951.- 8. Janus´s Interspecies Faces: Biomorphic Transformations in the Ecology of Mind in James Cameron´s Avatar.- 9. Documentary Intertext: André Singer´s and J. Stephen Lansing´s The Goddess and the Computer 1988.- 10. Conclusion: Toward a Transdisciplinary Critical Theory of Film.mehr

Kritik

"Graduate students, scholars and professionals interested film and addressing problems posed by the rising Anthropocene might find this book useful in providing ways to think outside the box and expand thinking to be more inclusive." (Morgan Danker, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 51 (3-4), 2020)mehr