Main entry:

De Luca, Tiago, author. aut

Title & Author:

Planetary cinema : film, media and the earth / Tiago de Luca.

Edition:

1st edition

Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]

Description:

1 online resource

Notes:
The (Whole) World in Motion -- Earth World Globe Planet -- Multiple Media Worlds -- Towards the Planetary -- The Chapters -- 1. Sublime Earth -- Humboldt's Panoramas -- Humboldt's Globes -- IMAX Whole-Earth -- Who Does the Earth Think It Is? -- Unearthing the Earth -- 2. The Unseen World Across the World -- Unseen Worlds -- Never Before Seen -- Never Before Seen (Again) -- Never to Be Seen Again -- 3. The Universal Equality of Things -- The Encyclopedia, or `The Sun is No Respecter of Persons or of Things' -- The Integrated Whole, or `An Instantaneous Survey of the World' -- The Database, or `YouTube is the World Stage' -- 4. The Face of the World -- The Inter-Face -- Death's Head -- `Don't Blink!' -- The Face in the Crowd -- 5. A Networked Humanity -- `One Common Flood of Humanity' -- A World of Strangers -- Networking the Earth -- 6. A Disappearing Planet -- A Human Planet -- An Inhuman Planet -- A Nonhuman Planet -- A Non-Planet.

Summary:

The story is now familiar. In the late 1960s humanity finally saw photographic evidence of the Earth in space for the first time. According to this narrative, the impact of such images in the consolidation of a planetary consciousness is yet to be matched. This book tells a different story. It argues that this narrative has failed to account for the vertiginous global imagination underpinning the media and film culture of the late nineteenth century and beyond. Panoramas, giant globes, world exhibitions, photography and stereography: all promoted and hinged on the idea of a world made whole and newly visible. When it emerged, cinema did not simply contribute to this effervescent globalism so much as become its most significant and enduring manifestation. 'Planetary Cinema' proposes that an exploration of that media culture can help us understand contemporary planetary imaginaries in times of environmental collapse. Engaging with a variety of media, genres and texts, the book sits at the intersection of film/media history and theory/philosophy, and it claims that we need this combined approach and expansive textual focus in order to understand the way we see the world.

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ISBN:

9048550963 (electronic bk.)
9789048550968 (electronic bk.)

Subject:

Films, cinema.
Media studies.
Science / Earth Sciences.
Art / Film & Video.
Social Science / Media Studies.
Earth (Planet) In motion pictures.
Earth (Planet) In art.
Terre Au cinéma.
Terre Dans l'art.
Earth (Planet)

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Art