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dc.contributor.authorde Luca, Tiago
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-20T08:56:33Z
dc.date.available2021-12-20T08:56:33Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20211220_9789048550968_4
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52144
dc.description.abstractThe story is now familiar. In the late 1960s humanity finally saw photographic evidence of the Earth in space for the first time. According to this narrative, the impact of such images in the consolidation of a planetary consciousness is yet to be matched. This book tells a different story. It argues that this narrative has failed to account for the vertiginous global imagination underpinning the media and film culture of the late nineteenth century and beyond. Panoramas, giant globes, world exhibitions, photography and stereography: all promoted and hinged on the idea of a world made whole and newly visible. When it emerged, cinema did not simply contribute to this effervescent globalism so much as become its most significant and enduring manifestation. Planetary Cinema proposes that an exploration of that media culture can help us understand contemporary planetary imaginaries in times of environmental collapse. Engaging with a variety of media, genres and texts, the book sits at the intersection of film/media history and theory/philosophy, and it claims that we need this combined approach and expansive textual focus in order to understand the way we see the world.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFilm Culture in Transition
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKV Digital, video and new media artsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RB Earth sciencesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherEarth, World, Global consciousness, Cinema, Media archaeology
dc.titlePlanetary Cinema
dc.title.alternativeFilm, Media and the Earth
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5117/9789463729628
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a
oapen.relation.isbn9789048550968
oapen.imprintAmsterdam University Press
oapen.pages334


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