Inhospitable world : cinema in the time of the Anthropocene / Jennifer Fay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fay, Jennifer, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature in motion pictures.

Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Environmentalism in motion pictures.

Ecology in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xi, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In recent years, environmental and human rights advocates have suggested that we have entered the first new geological epoch since the end of the ice age: the Anthropocene. In this new epoch, humans have come to reshape both the climate and natural world; humankind has caused mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted the oceans, and irreversibly altered the atmosphere. While standard ecological criticism attends to the environmental crisis as an unraveling of our natural state, this book looks to film to consider how it reflects upon the creation and destruction of human environments. What are the implications of ecological inhospitality? What role might cinema and media theory play in challenging our presumed right to occupy and populate the world? As an art form, film enjoys a unique relationship to the material, elemental world it captures and produces. Through it, we may appreciate the ambitions to design an unhomely planet that may no longer accommodate us"--Page [4] of cover.

Contents:

Part I On Location ... p. 21

1 Buster Keaton's Climate Change p. 23

2 Nuclear Conditioning p. 59

3 The Ecologies of Film Noir p. 97

Part II ... at the End of the World p. 127

4 Still Life p. 129

5 Antarctica and Siegfried Kracauer's Extraterrestrial Film Theory p. 162.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index.

ISBN:

9780190696788

0190696788

019069677X

9780190696771

OCLC:

1016935065