White Film in the Anthropocene

Philosophy, Ecology, and Cybernetics
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-93015-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 341 Seiten

Reihe: Religion and Philosophy

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Stepping into the Play Frame—Cinema as Mammalian Communication.- 2. Janus’s Celluloid and Digital Faces: The Existential Cyborg—Autopoie¯sis 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.

Über Autor(innen)

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