James Benning's Environments

Politics, Ecology, Duration

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

For more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, landscape, and the filmic medium, and during the last decade it has become increasingly clear how much these investigations have to offer to contemporary debates about ecology, the age of the anthropocene and the potentialities of new digital technologies. In James Benning’s Environments a range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of Benning’s practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work. The volume offers a number of interpretative frameworks drawing on film theory, environmental humanities, visual culture and philosophy, explaining why Benning has emerged as one of today’s essential filmmakers.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-08-07
Mått:156 x 234 x 8 mm
Vikt:303 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474431736

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Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Nikolaj Lübecker is Professor of French and Film Studies at The University of Oxford. His previous publications include Twenty-First-Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé (2022), James Benning’s Environments (co-edited with Daniele Rugo, 2019) and The Feel-Bad Film (2015). Daniele Rugo is Professor of Film at Brunel, University of London and an award-winning filmmaker. He has held visiting positions at University of Oxford, LSE and Sciences Po.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction, Nikolaj Lübecker & Daniele Rugo 　Intellectual EnvironmentsSurveying James Benning, Scott MacDonaldUtah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret, John BeckViolence and Landscape in the Films of James Benning, Nikolaj LübeckerMaterial EnvironmentsConstructing the Transversal Time-Image: Ecosophy, Immanence and Corporate ‘Land’ in James Benning’s Four Corners and California Trilogy, Colin GardnerMen in Huts in Woods: Independence, Transcendentalism and Technology in James Benning’s Thoreau and Kaczynski Documentaries and Exhibition, Silke PanseThe Earth as Material Film: Benning’s light glance making a material-image, Felicity ColmanPerceptual EnvironmentsA Lake-Event, Tom ConleyDefacing the Close-up, Kriss Ravetto-BiagioliThe Adventure of Patience, Daniele RugoIndex