Screening nature

Screening nature: cinema beyond the human

by Narraway, Guinevere Pick, Anat

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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 f…

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  • Full title :Screening nature : cinema beyond the human / edited by Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway.

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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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781461952497, 1461952492, 9781782382270, 1782382275, 1306142369, 9781306142366
  • oclc:ocn864139771
  • LC Classification:PN1995.9.N38
  • Dewey Decimal:791.43/66

Table of Contents

Introduction: intersecting ecology and film / Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway -- Eco-poetics: film, form, and the natural world. Three worlds: dwelling and worldhood on screen / Anat Pick -- Ten skies, 13 lakes, 15 pools: structure, immanence and eco-aesthetics in The swimmer and James Benning's land films / Silke Panse -- Land as protagonist: an interview with James Benning / Silke Panse -- Zoetropes: envisioning the nonhuman. Anthropomorphism and its vicissitudes: reflections on homme-sick cinema / James Leo Cahill -- Animism and the performative realist cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul / May Adol Ingawanij -- Was blind but now I see: animal liberation documentaries? deconstruction of barriers to witnessing injustice / Carrie Packwood Freeman and Scott Tulloch -- Filming the frozen south: animals in early Antarctic exploration films / Elizabeth Leane and Steve Nicol -- Eco-politics: environment, image, ideology. Dirty pictures: framing pollution and desire in "new new queer cinema" / Sophie Mayer -- Utopia in the mud: nature and landscape in the Soviet science fiction film / Elana Gomel -- Animals, avatars and the gendering of nature / Claire Molloy -- Buried land: filming t…

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Ecology in motion pictures Environmental films Environmental films -- History and crit… Environmental protection and motion pic… Environmentalism in motion pictures Environnementalisme au cinéma Films environnementaux -- Histoire et c… Nature au cinéma Nature films Nature films -- History and criticism Nature in motion pictures Naturen på film PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference Protection de l'environnement et cinéma

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Narraway, Guinevere Pick, Anat

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