Film in the Anthropocene Philosophy, Ecology, and Cybernetics /

• Main Author: White, Daniel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Motion pictures.; Ethnology.; Philosophy of Man.; Audio-Visual Culture.; Cultural Anthropology.
• Physical Description: XIV, 341 p. 2 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319930152
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2

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. .