Film in the Anthropocene Philosophy, Ecology, and Cybernetics /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: White, Daniel (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Philosophy.; Motion pictures.; Ethnology.; Philosophy of Man.; Audio-Visual Culture.; Cultural Anthropology.

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 i...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Stepping into the Play Frame-Cinema as Mammalian Communication
• 2. Janus's Celluloid and Digital Faces: The Existential Cyborg-Autopoiēsis in Christopher Nolan's Memento
• 3. Documentary Intertext: Robert Gardner's Dead Birds 1964
• 4. Cinema's Historical Incarnations: Traveling the Möbius Strip of Biotime in Cloud Atlas
• 5. Documentary Intertext: John Marshall, The Hunters 1957
• 6. Janus East and West: Multicultural Polyvocality-Trinh Minh-ha's The Fourth Dimension and The Digital Film
• 7. Documentary Intertext: Trance and Dance in Bali 1951
• 8. Janus's Interspecies Faces: Biomorphic Transformations in the Ecology of Mind in James Cameron's Avatar
• 9. Documentary Intertext: André Singer's and J. Stephen Lansing's The Goddess and the Computer 1988
• 10. Conclusion: Toward a Transdisciplinary Critical Theory of Film.