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Autore: |
White Daniel
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Titolo: |
Film in the Anthropocene : Philosophy, Ecology, and Cybernetics / / by Daniel White
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Pubblicazione: | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2018. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XIV, 341 p. 2 illus.) |
Disciplina: | 128 |
Soggetto topico: | Philosophy |
Motion pictures | |
Ethnology | |
Philosophy of Man | |
Audio-Visual Culture | |
Cultural Anthropology | |
Nota di contenuto: | 1. Introduction: Stepping into the Play Frame—Cinema as Mammalian Communication -- 2. Janus’s Celluloid and Digital Faces: The Existential Cyborg—Autopoiēsis 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. Daniel White draws on perspectives in philosophy, ecology, and cybernetics (the science of communication and control in animals and machines) to explore human self-understanding through film in the new era. The classical figure of Janus, looking both to the future and the past, serves as a guide throughout the study. Both feature and documentary films are considered. . |
Titolo autorizzato: | Film in the Anthropocene ![]() |
ISBN: | 3-319-93015-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910300622003321 |
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