Screening nature : cinema beyond the human /

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 ke...

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Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Pick, Anat, 1955- (Editor), Narraway, Guinevere (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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. S.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781461952497
1461952492
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1782382275
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