Hot Locations

Cinema on the Planetary Frontier
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-0-520-42535-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Hot Locations examines how vast, arid environments have become a coveted natural resource for American and European film and media producers. Seeking to sustain the colonial imaginary of the uninhabited frontier, the screen industries have increasingly depended on states in former colonies, transforming portions of their territories into quasi-extraterritorial zones stripped from Indigenous stewardship, deregulated as tax-exempt enclaves, and devoted to technomilitary experimentation. This book traces the production of abstracted desert images and re-anchors them in their material relations to land and to the humans and nonhumans who reside on that land. In so doing, this highly original work theorizes the desert as a distinctive extractive formation within cinema: an environment framed, captured, rendered, and circulated as both war zone and extraterrestrial world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mann, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Geographie, Landkarten & Atlanten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Entering the Sinkhole1. The Nuclear Zone2. The Fire Zone3. The Solar Zone4. The Conservation Zone5. The Digital ZoneConclusion: Punishment Parks  AcknowledgmentsNotesSelected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel Mann is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London and author of Occupying Habits: Everyday Media as Warfare in Israel-Palestine. A filmmaker, his films have been exhibited at leading international film festivals.