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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : électronique
Auteur(s) : Birks, Chelsea
Titre(s) : Limit cinema [Texte électronique] : transgression and the nonhuman in contemporary global film / Chelsea Birks
Publication : New York [New York] : Bloomsbury Academic, copyright 2021
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (xvi, 208 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Collection : Thinking Cinema (Online) ; volume 9
Lien à la collection : Thinking Cinema (Online)
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. - Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on
October 08, 2021).
"Limit Cinema explores how contemporary global cinema represents the relationship
between humans and nature. During the 21st century this relationship has become increasingly
fraught due to proliferating social and environmental crises; recent films from Lars
von Trier's Melancholia (2011) to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives (2010) address these problems by reflecting or renegotiating
the terms of our engagement with the natural world. In this spirit, this book proposes
a new film philosophy for the Anthropocene. It argues that certain contemporary films
attempt to transgress the limits of human experience, and that such 'limit cinema'
has the potential to help us rethink our relationship with nature. Posing a new and
timely alternative to the process philosophies that have become orthodox in the fields
of film philosophy and ecocriticism, Limit Cinema revitalizes the philosophy of Georges
Bataille and puts forward a new reading of his notion of transgression in the context
of our current environmental crisis. To that end, Limit Cinema brings Bataille into
conversation with more recent discussions in the humanities that seek less anthropocentric
modes of thought, including posthumanism, speculative realism, and other theories
associated with the nonhuman turn. The problems at stake are global in scale, and
the book therefore engages with cinema from a range of national and cultural contexts.
From Ben Wheatley's psychological thrillers to Nettie Wild's eco-documentaries, limit
cinema pushes against the boundaries of thought and encourages an ethical engagement
with perspectives beyond the human"
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 224 p.
Sujet(s) : Cinéma -- Environnement -- 2000-....
Nature -- Effets de l'homme -- Au cinéma -- 2000-....
Homme -- Effets de l'environnement -- Au cinéma -- 2000-....
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.436 55 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Thèmes sociaux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 1501352881. - ISBN 9781501352874. - ISBN 1501352873. - ISBN 9781501352898. -
ISBN 150135289X. - ISBN 9781501352881. - ISBN 9781501352867 (erroné). - ISBN 1501352865
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468447519
Notice n° :
FRBNF46844751
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: Cinema at the limit ; Part one. Objectivity. 1. Sacrifice and the
sacred ; 2. Objectivity, speculative realism, and the cinematic apparatus ; Part
two. Subjectivity. 3. Eco-consciousness ; 4. Loving nature ; 5. The impossible imperative.
