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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453349703321

Titolo

Screening nature : cinema beyond the human / / edited by Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013

ISBN

1-4619-5249-2

1-78238-227-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PickAnat <1955->

NarrawayGuinevere

Disciplina

791.43/66

Soggetti

Nature films - History and criticism

Environmental protection and motion pictures

Nature in motion pictures

Environmentalism in motion pictures

Ecology in motion pictures

Environmental films - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I   Eco-poetics Film, Form and the Natural World ; 1 Three Worlds ; 2 Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools - Structure, Immanence and Eco-aesthetics 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 ; 5 Animism and the Performative Realist Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul ; 6 Was Blind But Now I See ; 7 Filming the Frozen South

Part III   Eco-politics Environment, Image, Ideology 8 Dirty Pictures ; 9 Utopia in the Mud ; 10 Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of Nature ; 11 Buried Land ; Part IV   Eco-praxis Film as Environmental Practice ; 12 Strange Seeing ; 13 The Art of Self-emptying and Ecological Integration ; 14 An Inconvenient Truth ; 15 Planet in Focus ; Notes on Contributors ; Index



Sommario/riassunto

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. S