How do cinematic portrayals of the weather reflect and affect our
experience of the world? While weatherly predictability and
surprise can impact our daily experience, the history of cinema
attests to the stylistic and narrative significance of snow, rain,
wind, sunshine, clouds, and skies. Through analysis of films
ranging from The Wizard of Oz to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, from
Citizen Kane to In the Mood for Love, Kristi McKim calls our
attention to the ways that we read our atmospheres both within and
beyond the movies. Building upon meteorological definitions of
weather's dynamism and volatility, this book shows how film weather
can reveal character interiority, accelerate plot development,
inspire stylistic innovation, comprise a momentary attraction,
convey the passage of time, and idealize the world at its greatest
meaning-making capacity (unlike our weather, film weather always
happens on time, whether for tumultuous, romantic, violent,
suspenseful, or melodramatic ends). Akin to cinema's structuring of
ephemera, cinematic weather suggests aesthetic control over what is
fleeting, contingent, wildly environmental, and beyond human
capacity to tame. This first book-length study of such a
meteorological and cinematic affinity casts film weather as a means
of artfully and mechanically conquering contingency through
contingency, of taming weather through a medium itself ephemeral
and enduring. Using film theory, history,
formalist/phenomenological analysis, and eco-criticism, this book
casts cinema as weather, insofar as our skies and screens become
readable through our interpretation of changing phenomena.
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