Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voelcker, Becca.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Biography/History:

Voelcker Becca: Becca Voelcker is Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. She was named a BBC New Generation Thinker in 2024.

Summary:

Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction considers nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advances an understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility. Diving into little-known archives to explore films that resonate across geographies, Becca Voelcker unearths key examples of eco-political counterculture, from farmer-filmmakers in Japan and Mali to a gardener-filmmaker in Massachusetts, and from filmed landscape-portraits of women in Los Angeles, Orkney, and the Navajo Nation to Indigenous documentaries about land dispossession in Colombia. Proposing "land cinema" as an urgent genre for our time, this book reveals how images and ideas produced half a century ago sowed the seeds for climate justice movements today.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Language

Prologue

Introduction

1. Poets of the Land: The Subjects of Landscape Portraits

2. Farmer-Filmmakers, Fieldwork, and Growth

3. There Is No Countryside: The Anti-Pastoral

4. Companion Planting in Wounded Land

5. On the Picket Line, on the Television: Representation, Empathy, and Distance

6. Extraction Is Stealing, Relationships Give Meaning

Selected Filmography

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-41646-5

9780520416468

OCLC:

1545640214