Screening Nature (eBook, PDF)

Cinema beyond the Human
Redaktion: Pick, Anat

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782382270
• Artikelnr.: 40147830

Autorenporträt

Anat Pick lectures in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Her book Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film was published by Columbia University Press (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Intersecting Ecology and Film
Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway
Part I: Eco-poetics: Film, Form, and the Natural World
Chapter 1. Three Worlds: Dwelling and Worldhood on Screen
Anat Pick
Chapter 2. Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools - Structure, Immanence and
Eco-aesthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning's Land Films
Silke Panse
Chapter 3. Land as Protagonist - An Interview with James Benning
Silke Panse
Part II: Zoë-tropes: Envisioning the Nonhuman
Chapter 4. Anthropomorphism and Its Vicissitudes: Reflections on Homme-sick
Cinema
James Leo Cahill
Chapter 5. Animism and the Performative Realist Cinema of Apichatpong
Weerasethakul
May Adadol Ingawanij
Chapter 6. Was Blind But Now I See: Animal Liberation Documentaries'
Deconstruction of Barriers to Witnessing Injustice
Carrie Packwood Freeman and Scott Tulloch
Chapter 7. Filming the Frozen South: Animals in Early Antarctic Exploration
Films
Elizabeth Leane and Steve Nicol
Part III: Eco-politics: Environment, Image, Ideology
Chapter 8. Dirty Pictures: Framing Pollution and Desire in 'new New Queer
Cinema'
Sophie Mayer
Chapter 9. Utopia in the Mud: Nature and Landscape in the Soviet Science
Fiction Film
Elana Gomel
Chapter 10. Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of Nature
Claire Molloy
Chapter 11. Buried Land: Filming the Bosnian Pyramids
Steven Eastwood and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes    
Part IV: Eco-praxis: Film as Environmental Practice
Chapter 12. Strange Seeing: Re-viewing Nature in the Films of Rose Lowder
Guinevere Narraway
Chapter 13. The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration: Bae
Yong-kyun's Why Has Bodhidharma Left for the East
Chia-Ju Chang
Chapter 14. An Inconvenient Truth: Science and Argumentation in the
Expository Documentary Film
David Ingram
Chapter 15. Planet in Focus: Environmental Film Festivals
Kay Armatage
Notes on Contributors
Index