Format:
1 online resource (349 pages)
ISBN:
9780429890338
Series Statement:
AFI Film Readers Series
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: cinema of exploration: an adventurous film practice and theory -- Curiosity's Searching Gaze: New Frontiers -- No More Unexplored Countries -- Renaissance and Resistance -- Cinema of Exploration -- Cinema and Exploration -- Notes -- Part One: explorations in perception -- Chapter 2: chasing bugs: microbial frontiers in american epidemiological documentaries, 1946-60 -- The Microscopic Imagination -- The Sanitary International -- Coda: A Cinema of Exploration -- Notes -- Chapter 3: through the body with laser gun and camera: fantastic voyage and the cinema of exploration -- "The Fluid Camera in Fluid" -- "Intriguing Science-Fact" -- True-Life Adventure/Fantasy -- Notes -- Chapter 4: outer and inner space: psychedelia and selected representations of altered consciousness in experimental cinema -- Policing the Borders -- Libertines, Puritans, Historians -- The Chelsea Girls -- SF Trips Festival: An Opening -- The Spirit of Scientific Exploration -- Notes -- Chapter 5: weird loops: climate change, drone cinema, and the work of mourning -- Looking Back, Looking Down -- Drone Differences -- The Not-So-Completely Other, Dead, Dying with Me -- Notes -- Part Two: cinema of expedition -- Chapter 6: chance wrote the screenplay, reality directed the film: the exploration films of hans hass -- Mermen, Mermaids, and Others: Hans Hass and the Epistemology of Mechanical Exploration -- The Ambiguity of Sharks: Hans Hass and the Entertainment-Zoological Complex -- Reverence, Rights, and the Nature of Nature: On the Technologically Bounded form of Ecological Consciousness -- Notes -- Chapter 7: environmental aesthetics: tracing a latent image from early safari films to contemporary art cinema -- Notes.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781138602984
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429469299
Language:
English
