Screening nature : cinema beyond the human /: cinema beyond the human. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway.
• Editors: Pick, Anat, 1955-; Narraway, Guinevere
• 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 the Bosnian pyramids / Steven Eastwood and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes -- Eco-praxis: film as environmental practice. Strange seeing: re-viewing nature in the films of Rose Lowder / Guinevere Narraway -- The art of self-emptying and ecological integration: Bae Yong-Kyun's Why has Bodhidharma left for the East / Chia-Ju Chang -- An inconvenient truth: science and argumentation in the expository documentary film / David Ingram -- Planet in focus: environmental film festivals / Kay Armatage.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.43/66; 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; PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference; PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism; Ecology in motion pictures; Environmental films; Environmental protection and motion pictures; Environmentalism in motion pictures; Nature films; Nature in motion pictures; Naturen på film; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781461952497; 1461952492; 9781782382270; 1782382275; 1306142369; 9781306142366
• Related ISBNs: 9781782382263; 1782382267
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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