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Film in the anthropocene
philosophy, ecology, and cybernetics
Abstract
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.
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stepping into the play frame—cinema as mammalian communication
pp.1-14
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_1the existential cyborg—autopoiēsis in Christopher nolan's memento
pp.15-55
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_2Robert Gardner's Dead birds 1964
pp.57-77
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_3traveling the Möbius strip of biotime in Cloud atlas
pp.79-140
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_4John Marshall, The hunters 1957
pp.141-179
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_5multicultural polyvocality—Trinh Minh-Ha's The fourth dimension and the digital film event
pp.181-209
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_6trance and dance in bali 1951
pp.211-248
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_7biomorphic transformations in the ecology of mind in james Cameron's avatar
pp.249-286
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_8André Singer's and J. Stephen Lansing's The goddess and the computer 1988
pp.287-308
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_9toward a transdisciplinary critical theory of film
pp.309-330
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93015-2_10Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2018
Pages: 341
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-93014-5
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-93015-2
Full citation:
White Daniel (2018) Film in the anthropocene: philosophy, ecology, and cybernetics. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.