James Benning S Environments

Author : Lubecker Nikolaj Lubecker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Ecology in motion pictures
ISBN : 9781474470346

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James Benning's Environments by Lubecker Nikolaj Lubecker Pdf

For more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, landscape, and the filmic medium, and during the last decade it has become increasingly clear how much these investigations have to offer to contemporary debates about ecology, the age of the anthropocene and the potentialities of new digital technologies. In James Benning's Environments a range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of Benning's practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work. The volume offers a number of interpretative frameworks drawing on film theory, environmental humanities, visual culture and philosophy, explaining why Benning has emerged as one of today's essential filmmakers.

Author : Nikolaj Lubecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474417965

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James Benning's Environments. Politics, Ecology, Duration by Nikolaj Lubecker Pdf

For more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, landscape, and the filmic medium, and during the last decade it has become increasingly clear how much these investigations have to offer to contemporary debates about ecology, the age of the anthropocene and the potentialities of new digital technologies. In James Benning's Environments a range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of Benning's practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work. The volume offers a number of interpretative frameworks drawing on film theory, environmental humanities, visual culture and philosophy, explaining why Benning has emerged as one of today's essential filmmakers.

Author : Scott MacDonald
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190052126

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The Sublimity of Document by Scott MacDonald Pdf

"The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a collection of in-depth, substantive interviews with filmmakers devoted to documenting places and events that most of us never get to see--often, places and events that have considerable influence on our lives. The 27 interviews offer an engaging panorama of the recent history and geography of cinema devoted to documenting the world around us, as well as an in-depth look at the challenges and accomplishments of filmmakers willing to go anywhere on the planet (or on the internet!) to document what they believe we need to see"--

Author : J. Andrew Hubbell,John C. Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351200332

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Introduction to the Environmental Humanities by J. Andrew Hubbell,John C. Ryan Pdf

In an era of climate change, deforestation, melting ice caps, poisoned environments, and species loss, many people are turning to the power of the arts and humanities for sustainable solutions to global ecological problems. Introduction to the Environmental Humanities offers a practical and accessible guide to this dynamic and interdisciplinary field. This book provides an overview of the Environmental Humanities’ evolution from the activist movements of the early and mid-twentieth century to more recent debates over climate change, sustainability, energy policy, and habitat degradation in the Anthropocene era. The text introduces readers to seminal writings, artworks, campaigns, and movements while demystifying important terms such as the Anthropocene, environmental justice, nature, ecosystem, ecology, posthuman, and non-human. Emerging theoretical areas such as critical animal and plant studies, gender and queer studies, Indigenous studies, and energy studies are also presented. Organized by discipline, the book explores the role that the arts and humanities play in the future of the planet. Including case studies, discussion questions, annotated bibliographies, and links to online resources, this book offers a comprehensive and engaging overview of the Environmental Humanities for introductory readers. For more advanced readers, it serves as a foundation for future study, projects, or professional development.

Author : Anat Pick,Guinevere Narraway
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781782382270

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Screening Nature by Anat Pick,Guinevere Narraway Pdf

Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large. Screening Nature is the first comprehensive work that groups together the wide range of concerns in the field of cinema and the environment, and what could be termed “posthuman cinema.” It comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of nature and nonhuman animals to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. The book offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as principal register in many filmic texts. Screening Nature offers an extensive resource for teachers, undergraduate students, and more advanced scholars on the intersections between the natural world and the worlds of film. It emphasizes the cross-cultural and geographically diverse relevance of the topic of cinema ecology.

Author : Nick Heffernan,David A. Wragg
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527551329

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Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics by Nick Heffernan,David A. Wragg Pdf

Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics brings together a series of new reflections on historical and current ecological and environmental predicaments. By way of critical interventions in environmental thought, and through engagements with literary, visual, architectural, philosophical, and more general cultural studies scholarship, this collection of essays by an international panel of writers breaks new interpretative ground. While techno-science has in some quarters been elevated to a master discourse of humanity’s salvation, charged with providing a magical ‘fix’ for planetary ecological dilemmas, the focus of our volume is on the importance of cultural reflection for bringing matters of local and global import to light. Moving from the abstractions of eco-critical utopianisms to the concrete identity of the land in the poetry of John Clare, from British Petroleum’s attempts to re-brand climate change to examples of eco-architecture, and much more besides, these essays exemplify ways in which eco-political thought and practice might now be theorized. The collection is framed by a substantial editors’ introduction which offers but one contextualization of the ideas and critical trajectories that follow. Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics will allow readers to discover original intersections and argumentative cross-references across contested terrains in a world increasingly troubled by ecological crises.

Author : Nadia Bozak
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813551968

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The Cinematic Footprint by Nadia Bozak Pdf

Film is often used to represent the natural landscape and, increasingly, to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even today’s “green” movies are ecologically unsustainable production, distribution, and consumption processes. Noting how seemingly immaterial moving images are supported by highly durable resource-dependent infrastructures, The Cinematic Footprint traces the history of how the “hydrocarbon imagination” has been central to the development of film as a medium. Nadia Bozak’s innovative fusion of film studies and environmental studies makes provocative connections between the disappearance of material resources and the emergence of digital media—with examples ranging from early cinema to Dziga Vertov’s prescient eye, from Chris Marker’s analog experiments to the digital work of Agnès Varda, James Benning, and Zacharias Kunuk. Combining an analysis of cinema technology with a sensitive consideration of film aesthetics, The Cinematic Footprint offers a new perspective on moving images and the natural resources that sustain them.

Author : Tiago de Luca
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748696031

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Slow Cinema by Tiago de Luca Pdf

Focused on a body of films bound together through a cinematic aesthetic of slowness, this book is a pioneering effort to situate, theorise and map out slow cinema within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history.

Author : Michael Walsh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783030760922

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Durational Cinema by Michael Walsh Pdf

This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s. Figures studied include Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, Claude Lanzmann, James Benning, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lav Diaz, and Wang Bing.Durational cinema is predominantly minimal, but has from the beginning also included a more encompassing or encyclopedic kind of filmmaking. Durational cinema is characteristically representational, and converges on certain topics (the Holocaust, deindustrialization, the experience of the working class and other marginalized people), but has no one meaning, signifying differently at different moments and in different hands. Warhol’s durational cinema of subtraction is quite different from Jacobs’s durational cinema of social disgust, while Lav Diaz’ durational sublime is quite different from Kevin Jerome Everson’s unblinking studies of African-American working people.

Author : Adrian J. Ivakhiv
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781554589067

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Ecologies of the Moving Image by Adrian J. Ivakhiv Pdf

This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies – material, social, and perceptual relations – within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. If cinema takes us on mental and emotional journeys, the author argues that those journeys that have reshaped our understanding of ourselves, life, and the Earth and universe. A range of styles are examined, from ethnographic and wildlife documentaries, westerns and road movies, sci-fi blockbusters and eco-disaster films to the experimental and art films of Tarkovsky, Herzog, Malick, and Brakhage, to YouTube’s expanding audio-visual universe.

Author : Lauren O'Mahony,Rahul K. Gairola,Melissa Merchant,Simon Order
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000909418

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Performing Identity in the Era of COVID-19 by Lauren O'Mahony,Rahul K. Gairola,Melissa Merchant,Simon Order Pdf

This innovative volume compels readers to re-think the notions of performance, performing, and (non)performativity in the context of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Given these multi-faceted ways of thinking about “performance” and its complicated manifestations throughout the pandemic, this volume is organised into umbrella topics that focus on three of the most important aspects of identity for cultural and intercultural studies in this historical moment: language; race/gender/sexuality; and the digital world. In critically re-thinking the meaning of “performance” in the era of COVID-19, contributors first explore how language is differently staged in the context of the global pandemic, compelling us to normalise an entirely new verbal lexicon. Second, they survey the pandemic’s disturbing impact on socio-political identities rooted in race, class, gender, and sexuality. Third, contributors examine how the digital milieu compels us to reorient the inside/outside binary with respect to multilingual subjects, those living with disability, those delivering staged performances, and even corresponding audiences. Together, these diverse voices constitute a powerful chorus that rigorously excavates the hidden impacts of the global pandemic on how we have changed the ways in which we perform identity throughout a viral crisis. This volume is thus a timely asset for all readers interested in identity studies, performance studies, digital and technology studies, language studies, global studies, and COVID-19 studies. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Environmental protection
ISBN : IND:30000118496292

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The Environmental Update by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Rust,Salma Monani,Sean Cubitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415899420

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Ecocinema Theory and Practice by Stephen Rust,Salma Monani,Sean Cubitt Pdf

This is an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema's intersections with environmental understandings.

Author : James Benning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 0923183485

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(FC) Two Cabins by JB by James Benning Pdf

Author : Diane Waldman,Janet Walker
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816630070

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Feminism and Documentary by Diane Waldman,Janet Walker Pdf

Documentary and feminist film studies have long been separate or parallel universes that need to converse or collide. The essays in this volume, written by prominent scholars and filmmakers, demonstrate the challenges that feminist perspectives pose for documentary theory, history, and practice. They also show how fuller attention to documentary enriches and complicates feminist theory, especially regarding the relationship between gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, class, and nation. Feminism and Documentary begins with a substantial historical introduction that highlights several of the specific areas that contributors address: debates over realism, the relationship between filmmaker and subject, historical thinking about documentary and thinking about the historical documentary, biography and autobiography, and the use of psychoanalysis. Other essays, most of which appear here for the first time, range from broad overviews to close analyses of particular films and videos and from discussions of well-known works such as Roger and Me and Don't Look Back to lesser known texts that might revise the canon. The collection includes an extensive filmography and videography with useful distribution information and a bibliography of work in this neglected area of scholarship. Lucid, sophisticated, and eye-opening, this book will galvanize documentary studies and demonstrate the need for women's and cultural studies to grapple with visual media. what cu.