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Ecstatic worlds : media, utopias, ecologies / Janine Marchessault.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marchessault, Janine, author.
- Series:
- Leonardo.
- Leonardo
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Technological innovations.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 355 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's ""Family of Man, "" Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.
- Contents:
- Part I Earth 19
- 1 Anonymous Reality and Redemption in "The Family of Man" 21
- 2 Invisible Ecologies: Cousteau's Cameras and Ocean Wonders 53
- Part II Worlds 85
- 3 T Is for Telekinema: Projecting Future Worlds at the Festival of Britain 87
- 4 Terre des Hommes / Man and His World: Expo 67 as Global Media Experiment 127
- Part III Planet 159
- 5 Inflatable Media: Film Festivals, Microcinemas, and Ephemeral Media 165
- 6 Dolphins in Space, Planetary Thinking 205.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262341141
- 026234114X
- OCLC:
- 1001945745
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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