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The Cinematic Footprint
Price (paper): $26.95
Price (cloth): $72.00
Subtitle: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources
Author:
Nadia Bozak
Subject: Film and Media Studies, Environmental Studies and Ecology
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-5139-5
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5138-8
Pages: 272 pages
Publication Date: November 2011
Praise for The Cinematic Footprint
"Highly original and beautifully written, Bozak's groundbreaking work adds an essential new dimension to the act of critically viewing film. I have long been awaiting a book that brings environmental matters into the heart of film and media studies!"
—Lisa Parks, University of California, Santa Barbara
Description:
Film has often been used to represent the natural landscape and to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even the "green" images shown on screens are ecologically unsustainable production and distribution processes. Noting that celluloid is often composed of petroleum byproducts, The Cinematic Footprint traces the history of how the "hydrocarbon imagination" has been central to the development of film as a medium.
Nadia Bozak's innovative fusion of film studies and environmental studies leads her to make provocative connections between the disappearance of material resources and the emergence of digital media—with examples ranging from early cinema to Dziga Vertov's prescient eye, from Chris Marker's analog experiments to the digital work of Agnès Varda, James Benning, and Zacharias Kunuk. Combining an analysis of cinema technology with a sensitive consideration of film aesthetics, The Cinematic Footprint offers a new perspective between moving images and the natural resources that sustain them.
About the Author:
NADIA BOZAK holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Toronto. She is also a published novelist.
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