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WINNER of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Best
First Book Award 2023 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.
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