Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature (Environmental Humanities)

Ivakhiv, Adrian J.

ISBN 10: 1554589053 / ISBN 13: 9781554589050

Published by Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature (Environmental Humanities)
• Publisher: Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554589053
• ISBN 13: 9781554589050
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Moving images take us on mental and emotional journeys, over the course of which we and our worlds undergo change. This is the premise of Ecologies of the Moving Image, which accounts for the ways cinematic moving images move viewers in ways that reshape our understanding of ourselves, of life, and of the Earth and universe.
This book presents an ecophilosophy of the cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to its lived ecologies—the material, social, and perceptual relations within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. Cinema, Adrian Ivakhiv argues, lures us into its worlds, but those worlds are grounded in a material and communicative Earth that supports them, even if that supporting materiality withdraws from visibility. Ivakhiv examines the geographies, visualities, and anthropologies—relations of here and there, seer and seen, us and them, human and inhuman—found across a range of styles and genres, from ethnographic and wildlife documentaries to westerns and road movies, and from sci-fi blockbusters and eco-disaster films to the experimental and art films of Tarkovsky, Herzog, Greenaway, Malick, Dash, and Brakhage as well as YouTube’s expanding audiovisual universe.
Through its process-relational account of cinema, drawn from philosophers such as Whitehead, Peirce, and Deleuze, the book boldly enriches our understanding of film and visual media.

About the Author

Adrian J. Ivakhiv is Professor of Environmental Thought and Culture at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont. He is the author of Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona (2001) and numerous other publications in environmental studies, film and cultural studies, religious studies, and human geography. He blogs at Immanence: EcoCulture, GeoPhilosophy, MediaPolitics, blog.uvm.edu/immanence.