Film in the Anthropocene

Philosophy, Ecology, and Cybernetics
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-93014-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 341 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of film in the context of the Anthropocene: the new geological era in which human beings have collectively become a force of nature. Daniel White draws on perspectives in philosophy, ecology, and cybernetics (the science of communication and control in animals and machines) to explore human self-understanding through film in the new era. The classical figure of Janus, looking both to the future and the past, serves as a guide throughout the study. Both feature and documentary films are considered.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction Stepping into the Play Frame: Cinema as Mammalian Communication

Chapter 2: Janus’s Celluloid and Digital Faces: The Existential Cyborg: Autopoiesis in Christopher Nolan’s Memento

Chapter 3: Documentary Intertext: Robert Gardner’s Dead Birds 1964

Chapter 4: Cinema’s Historical Incarnations: Travelling the Möbius Strip of Biotime in Cloud Atlas

From Novel to Film

Chapter 5: Documentary Intertext: John Marshall’s The Hunters 1957

Chapter 6: Janus Speaks: Multicultural Polyvocality: Trinh Minh-ha’s The Fourth Dimension and The Digital Film Event

Chapter 7: Documentary Intertext: Gregory Bateson’s and Margaret Mead’s Trance and Dance in Bali 1952

Chapter 8: Janus’s Interspecies Faces: Biomorphic Transformations in the Ecology of Mind in James Cameron’s Avatar

Chapter 9: Documentary Intertext: J. Stephen Lansing’s and André Singer’s The Goddess and the Computer

Chapter 10: Conclusion: Toward a Transdisciplinary Critical Theory of Film

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel White is Professor Emeritus and founding faculty member of the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University.