0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R500 - R1,000 (1)
  • R1,000 - R2,500 (3)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 4 of 4 matches in All Departments

Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human (Hardcover): Elena Past Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human (Hardcover)
Elena Past
R2,063 R1,915 Discovery Miles 19 150 Save R148 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human (Paperback): Elena Past Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human (Paperback)
Elena Past
R820 Discovery Miles 8 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Italy and the Environmental Humanities - Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies (Hardcover): Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, Elena... Italy and the Environmental Humanities - Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies (Hardcover)
Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, Elena Past
R2,022 Discovery Miles 20 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy-as a territory of both matter and imagination-through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches-including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal and landscape studies-to move past cliche and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place. Among the topics investigated are post-seismic rubble and the stratifying geosocial layers of the Anthropocene, the landscape connections in the work of writers such as Calvino and Buzzati, the contaminated fields of the ecomafia's trafficking, Slow Food's gastronomy of liberation, poetic birds and historic forests, resident parasites, and nonhuman creatures. At a time when the tension between the local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots and porous place-identities, Italy and the Environmental Humanities builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented discussions, but the entire debate on environmental culture.

Italy and the Environmental Humanities - Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies (Paperback): Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, Elena... Italy and the Environmental Humanities - Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies (Paperback)
Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, Elena Past
R1,085 Discovery Miles 10 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy-as a territory of both matter and imagination-through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches-including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal and landscape studies-to move past cliche and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place. Among the topics investigated are post-seismic rubble and the stratifying geosocial layers of the Anthropocene, the landscape connections in the work of writers such as Calvino and Buzzati, the contaminated fields of the ecomafia's trafficking, Slow Food's gastronomy of liberation, poetic birds and historic forests, resident parasites, and nonhuman creatures. At a time when the tension between the local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots and porous place-identities, Italy and the Environmental Humanities builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented discussions, but the entire debate on environmental culture.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Alcolin Super Glue 3 X 3G
R64 Discovery Miles 640
Tenet
John David Washington, Robert Pattinson Blu-ray disc  (1)
R54 R45 Discovery Miles 450
Mellerware Swiss - Plastic Floor Fan…
R371 Discovery Miles 3 710
Pest Magic Insect Repelent (Pack of 2)
 (2)
R316 Discovery Miles 3 160
Microsoft Xbox Series X Console (1TB)
 (21)
R14,999 Discovery Miles 149 990
Loot
Nadine Gordimer Paperback  (2)
R398 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300
White Glo Traveller's Pack
R70 Discovery Miles 700
Lucky Lubricating Clipper Oil (100ml)
R49 R30 Discovery Miles 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer Paperback  (2)
R398 R330 Discovery Miles 3 300
Kendall Office Chair (Green)
 (2)
R1,699 R1,346 Discovery Miles 13 460

 

Partners