Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human (eBook)

Elena Past (Autor)

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2019
226 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03951-4 (ISBN)

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Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human is an ecocritical study of five Italian films. It explores the ways in which on-location filming impacts the relationships between the production crew and the environment, and ultimately the story told in the resulting cinematic narrative.

1. This book is a timely examination of how media engages with the environmental crisis: both as a consumer of resources and a means of shifting perspectives on the world.

2. It provides new perspective on cinema studies by exploring five films shot on location in geographically diverse regions of Italy through ethnographic interviews with the production crew and close readings of the messages of the films themselves.

3. Elena Past is an established author and scholar.

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Entangled in the hybrid fields of ecomedia studies and material ecocriticism, Elena Past examines five Italian films shot on location and ponders the complex relationships that the production crews developed with the filming locations and the nonhuman cast members. She uses these films—Red Desert (1964), The Winds Blows Round (2005), Gomorrah (2008), Le quattro volte (2010), and Return to the Aeolian Islands (2010)—as case studies to explore pressing environmental questions such as cinema's dependence on hydrocarbons, the toxic waste crisis in the region of Campania, and our reliance on the nonhuman world. Dynamic and unexpected actors emerge as the subjects of each chapter: playful goats, erupting volcanoes, airborne dust particles, fluid petroleum, and even the sound of silence. Based on interviews with crew members and close readings of the films themselves, Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human theorizes how filmmaking practice—from sound recording to location scouting to managing a production—helps uncover cinema's ecological footprint and its potential to open new perspectives on the nonhuman world.

Autor

Elena Past is Associate Professor of Italian in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University. She is author of Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction, editor (with Deborah Amberson) of Thinking Italian Animals: Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film, and editor (with Serenella Iovino and Enrico Cesaretti) of Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation

On Location: Italian Ecocinema

1. Hydrocarbons, Moving Pictures, Time: Red Desert

2. Location, Dirty Cinema, Toxic Waste, Storytelling: Gomorrah

3. Posthuman Collaboration, Cohabitation, Sacrifice: The Wind Blows Round

4. Silence, Cinema, More-than-Human Sound: Le quattro volte

5. Volcanoes, Transgenerational Memory, Cinema: Return to the Aeolian Islands

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.1.2019
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in National Cinemas
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in National Cinemas
• Reihe/Serie: New Directions in National Cinemas
• Zusatzinfo: 19 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aeolian Islands • Animal Studies • Biopolitics • Camorra • carboneria • Cinema • Crew • dirt theory • dirty cinema • Ecocinema • Ecocriticism • Ecomafia • Elena Past • Film • Giorgio Diritti • Giovanna Taviani • Goats • Gomorrah • Hydrocarbons • Il vento fa il suo giro • Indiana University Press • Interviews • Italian Cinema • Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human • Italian screen studies • Italy • IUP • IU Press • Le quattro volte • Location • Material ecocriticism • Matteo Garrone • Michelangelo Antonioni • Michelangelo Frammartino • Naples • non-human • PAST • petroculture • posthumanism • Red Desert • Return to the Aeolian Islands • Screen studies • Serenella Iovino • slow cinema • Sound Studies • The Wind Blows Round • Toxic waste • volcano • Volcanoes • Volcanology
• ISBN-10: 0-253-03951-7 / 0253039517
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-03951-4 / 9780253039514