Elemental world cinema

cinematic entanglements of earth, fire, water and air

Tiago de Luca, Matilda Mroz (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2025 | 1. Auflage
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-73511-8 (ISBN)

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This is the first book-length study on the relationship between cinema and the classical elements. It centres on earth, fire, water and air to offer new perspectives on the intersection of film and the nonhuman in a time of climate emergency. Mobilising a range of analytical frameworks, including early film theory, Indigenous epistemologies and environmental sciences, the essays in this collection trace the complex agencies of the elements as they intersect with the material properties of the cinematic image across fiction, animation, documentary and experimental film. In doing so, the book positions elemental cinema as a multifaceted process and experience that might encompass attempts to think with, alongside or even ‘like’ the elemental, all the while recognising the limitations of our anthropocentric systems of meaning.

Tiago de Luca is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Warwick. His research lies broadly in the fields of contemporary world cinema, global film aesthetics and ecocinema. He is the author of Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth (2022) and Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality (2014), and the co-editor of Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (2022) and Slow Cinema (2016). Matilda Mroz is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research interests lie broadly in film-philosophies and filmed environments, particularly in the context of genocide and violence. She was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (University of Sussex) and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Cambridge). She is the author of Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge (2020) and Temporality and Film Analysis (2012), the co-editor of The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia (2016) and the co-author of Remembering Katyn (2012).

Introduction: The Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air>

Tiago de Luca and Matilda Mroz

PART 1: Troubling Terrain: Framing the Agencies of Stone and Soil

1 Abbas Kiarostami, Global Art Cinema and the Material Imagination of Earth 29

Graig Uhlin

2 Earth After Death: Posthumous Cinematic Ecologies in Holocaust Documentary Film 48

Matilda Mroz

PART 2: Scorched Earth: Cinemas of Eruption and Combustion

3 Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologies 73

Patrick Brian Smith

4 Cinema as Volcano: Thinking Cinema Through the Volcano with
Malena Szlam, Werner Herzog and Jean Epstein 95

Jessica Mulvogue

5 Tectonic Memories: Film, Geology and Archives in Diana Vidrașcu’s Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream? (2019) 116

Toby Ashworth

PART 3: Liquid Poetics: Seas, Rivers and Anticolonial Currents

6 Untamed Storms: Cinema’s Oceanic Contingency and Mati Diop’s Atlantics 139

Laurence Kent

7 Imagining the Elements with Gaston Bachelard and Claire Denis: ‘Weighted’ Images, Drift and Diffusion in L’Intrus/The Intruder 157

Saige Walton

8 Animated Waters and the Circulation of Indigenous Instruction 177

Joanna Hearne

PART 4: Clouded Visions: Atmospheric Contingencies

9 Stormy Images: Elemental Kinetics in the Recent Films of Takashi Makino (2018–2021) 203

Kaya Turan

10 Nebulous Cinema 225

Tiago de Luca

11 Geoblocking the Sun: Solar Eclipses in Transnational Artists’ Film 248

Stefan Solomon

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Erscheinungsdatum	29.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Cinema ; 12
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-10	90-04-73511-9 / 9004735119
ISBN-13	978-90-04-73511-8 / 9789004735118
Zustand	Neuware