Cinema of Exploration (eBook, ePUB)

Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice
Redaktion: Cahill, James Leo; Caminati, Luca

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing together contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema's century-long relationship to modes of exploration in its many forms, from colonialist expeditions to decolonial radical cinemas to the perceptual voyage of the senses made possible by the cinematic apparatus.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429890321
• Artikelnr.: 60706950

Autorenporträt

James Leo Cahill is Director of the Cinema Studies Institute and Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and French at the University of Toronto. He is author of Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé (2019) and general editor of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. Luca Caminati is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of Orientalismo eretico. Pier Paolo Pasolini e il cinema del Terzo Mondo (2007), Il cinema come happening: Pasolini's Primitivism and the Sixties Italian Art Scene (2010), and Roberto Rossellini documentarista. Una cultura della realtà (2012), along with many articles and book chapters on Italian cinema and media. He is currently serving as associate editor for the journal Italica.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cinema of Exploration: An Adventurous Film Practice and Theory; Part I:
Explorations in Perception ; 2. Chasing Bugs: Microbial Frontiers in
American Epidemiological Documentaries, 1946-60; 3. Through the Body with
Laser Gun and Camera: Fantastic Voyage and the Cinema of Exploration; 4.
Outer and Inner Space: Psychedelia and Selected Representations of Altered
Consciousness in Experimental Cinema; 5. Weird Loops: Climate Change, Drone
Cinema, and the Work of Mourning; Part II: Cinema of Expedition; 6. Chance
Wrote the Screenplay, Reality Directed the Film: The Exploration Films of
Hans Hass; 7. Environmental Aesthetics: Tracing a Latent Image from Early
Safari Films to Contemporary Art Cinema; 8. Travelling the World with a
Smile: James Fitzpatrick's Traveltalks; 9. Aquariums, Diving Equipment, and
the Undersea Films of John Ernest Williamson; 10. Sounding Travel
Documentary in Wartime China: The Dual Journey of Long Live the Nation;
Part III: Narratives of Exploration; 11. Exploring Marker's Cuba: Shivers
and Rhythms; 12. Like a Mobile, Living Archive: Antonioni the Traveler;
13. Adventure Cinema in the Age of Austerity: The case of Miguel Gomes'
Arabian Nights (2015) Trilogy; 14. Amazon Cinema: Vegetal Storytelling;
Part IV. Cinema of Exploitation; 15. Mondo Exotica: Ethnography, Eros, and
Exploitation in Italian Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s; 16. From Pierre
Perrault to Rolf De Heer: Auteur Cinema and the Poetic Exploration of
Indigenous Lands and Identities; 17. Prospecting: Cinema and the
Exploration of Extraction; Coda: 18. Speculations on Film/theory and the
Trope of Exploration"