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Limit Cinema - Transgression and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Global Film (Paperback)
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Limit Cinema - Transgression and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Global Film (Paperback)
Series: Thinking Cinema
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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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