Film in the Anthropocene : Philosophy, Ecology, and Cybernetics / / by Daniel White

• Autore: White Daniel
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II