03093nam 2200613 a 450 991079059950332120200520144314.01-283-86471-10-8135-5196-X10.36019/9780813551968(CKB)2670000000151163(EBL)860792(OCoLC)777375530(SSID)ssj0000611497(PQKBManifestationID)11445567(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611497(PQKBWorkID)10666064(PQKB)11585539(OCoLC)785785241(MdBmJHUP)muse17478(DE-B1597)529271(DE-B1597)9780813551968(Au-PeEL)EBL860792(CaPaEBR)ebr10535573(CaONFJC)MIL417721(MiAaPQ)EBC860792(EXLCZ)99267000000015116320110111d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe cinematic footprint[electronic resource] lights, camera, natural resources /Nadia BozakNew Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press20121 online resource (257 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-5138-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Energy -- Resource -- Extraction -- Excess -- Waste -- Conclusion.Film is often used to represent the natural landscape and, increasingly, to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even today’s “green” movies are ecologically unsustainable production, distribution, and consumption processes. Noting how seemingly immaterial moving images are supported by highly durable resource-dependent infrastructures, The Cinematic Footprint traces the history of how the “hydrocarbon imagination” has been central to the development of film as a medium. Nadia Bozak’s innovative fusion of film studies and environmental studies makes provocative connections between the disappearance of material resources and the emergence of digital media—with examples ranging from early cinema to Dziga Vertov’s prescient eye, from Chris Marker’s analog experiments to the digital work of Agnès Varda, James Benning, and Zacharias Kunuk. Combining an analysis of cinema technology with a sensitive consideration of film aesthetics, The Cinematic Footprint offers a new perspective on moving images and the natural resources that sustain them. Motion picture industryEnvironmental aspectsMotion picturesProduction and directionEnvironmental aspectsMotion picture industryEnvironmental aspects.Motion picturesProduction and directionEnvironmental aspects.791.43/09Bozak Nadia1580566MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790599503321The cinematic footprint3861549UNINA