Cinema of Exploration: Essays on an Adventurous Film Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138602984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 338 str.

JAMES LEO CAHILL

Opis

Drawing together contributions from leading international scholars, this book conceptualizes the history and theory of cinema’s century-long relationship to modes of exploration in its many forms, from colonialist expeditions to decolonial radical cinemas to the perceptual voyage of the senses made possible by the cinematic apparatus.

Spis treści

1. Cinema of Exploration: An Adventurous Film Practice and Theory; Part I: Explorations in Perception ; 2. Chasing Bugs: Microbial Frontiers in American Epidemiological Documentaries, 1946–60; 3. Through the Body with Laser Gun and Camera: Fantastic Voyage and the Cinema of Exploration; 4. Outer and Inner Space: Psychedelia and Selected Representations of Altered Consciousness in Experimental Cinema; 5. Weird Loops: Climate Change, Drone Cinema, and the Work of Mourning; Part II: Cinema of Expedition; 6. Chance Wrote the Screenplay, Reality Directed the Film: The Exploration Films of Hans Hass; 7. Environmental Aesthetics: Tracing a Latent Image from Early Safari Films to Contemporary Art Cinema; 8. Travelling the World with a Smile: James Fitzpatrick's Traveltalks; 9. Aquariums, Diving Equipment, and the Undersea Films of John Ernest Williamson; 10. Sounding Travel Documentary in Wartime China: The Dual Journey of Long Live the Nation; Part III: Narratives of Exploration; 11. Exploring Marker’s Cuba: Shivers and Rhythms; 12. Like a Mobile, Living Archive: Antonioni the Traveler; 13. Adventure Cinema in the Age of Austerity: The case of Miguel Gomes’ Arabian Nights (2015)  Trilogy; 14. Amazon Cinema: Vegetal Storytelling; Part IV. Cinema of Exploitation; 15. Mondo Exotica: Ethnography, Eros, and Exploitation in Italian Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s; 16. From Pierre Perrault to Rolf De Heer: Auteur Cinema and the Poetic Exploration of Indigenous Lands and Identities; 17. Prospecting: Cinema and the Exploration of Extraction; Coda: 18. Speculations on Film/theory and the Trope of Exploration"