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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:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- While standard ecological cricitism attends to the environmental crisis as an unraveling of our natural state, this text looks to films and media theory to consider how they reflect upon the creation and destruction of artifial, human environments. What are the implications of ecological inhospitality? And what role might cinema and media theory play in challenging our presumed right to occupy and populate the world? As an art form, cinema 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.
- Contents:
- Buster Keaton's climate change
- Nuclear conditioning
- The ecologies of film noir
- Still life
- Antarctica and Siegfried Kracauer's extraterrestrial film theory
- Conclusion: The epoch and the archive.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- OUP approval plan 2018
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 10, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-069680-X
- 0-19-069681-8
- 0-19-069679-6
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