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OverviewDrawing together 18 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. This is the first anthology dedicated to analysing cinema’s relationship to exploration from a global, decolonial, and ecological perspective. Featuring leading scholars working with pathbreaking interdisciplinary methodologies (drawing on insights from science and technology studies, postcolonial theory, indigenous ways of knowing, and film theory and history), it theorizes not only cinema’s implication in imperial conquest but also its cutting-edge role in empirical expansion and experiments in sensual and critical perception. The collected essays consider filmmaking in cross-cultural contexts and films made in or about peoples in South America, Asia, Africa, Indigenous North America, as well as polar, outer space, and underwater exploration, with famous figures such as Jacques Yves Cousteau alongside amateur and scientific filmmakers. The essays in this collection are ideal for a broad range of scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in cinema and media studies, cultural studies, and cognate fields. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James Leo Cahill , Luca Caminati (Concordia University)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.660kg ISBN: 9781138602984ISBN 10: 1138602981 Pages: 338 Publication Date: 30 December 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"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"""ReviewsThrough an expansive optic and re-imagining of film's deep imbrication with exploration, this rich collection views cinema and exploration as mutually informing and vital allies in understanding twentieth century human history and our current crisis in the age of the Anthropocene. The authors productively take up the charge of discerning cinema in diverse contexts of exploration and critically engage with how adventure itself has long been a driving force and useful metaphor for cinema and/as epistemological practice. Alison Griffiths, Distinguised Professor, The City University of New York A remarkable transdisciplinary anthology exploring cinematic image-work in relation to issues of exploration, travel, colonial visual culture, experimental ethnographic film, and more broadly in relation to human encounters with intensive natural phenomena that confounds those who observe and participate in them. This collection will inspire and be useful to scholars in the human sciences, particularly media and visual anthropologists, who are willing to experiment with the new capacities of the cinematic. Tarek Elhaik, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis and author of The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film and Media Arts. Through an expansive optic and re-imagining of film's deep imbrication with exploration, this rich collection views cinema and exploration as mutually informing and vital allies in understanding twentieth century human history and our current crisis in the age of the Anthropocene. The authors productively take up the charge of discerning cinema in diverse contexts of exploration and critically engage with how adventure itself has long been a driving force and useful metaphor for cinema and/as epistemological practice. Alison Griffiths, Distinguised Professor, The City University of New York Author InformationJames Leo Cahill is Director of the Cinema Studies Institute and Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and French at the University of Toronto. He is author of Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé (2019) and general editor of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. Luca Caminati is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of Orientalismo eretico. Pier Paolo Pasolini e il cinema del Terzo Mondo (2007), Il cinema come happening: Pasolini's Primitivism and the Sixties Italian Art Scene (2010), and Roberto Rossellini documentarista. Una cultura della realtà (2012), along with many articles and book chapters on Italian cinema and media. He is currently serving as associate editor for the journal Italica. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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