Description
Book SynopsisItalian Ecocinema Beyond the Human is an ecocritical study of five Italian films. It explores the ways in which on-location filming impacts the relationships between the production crew and the environment, and ultimately the story told in the resulting cinematic narrative.
Trade ReviewPart memoir, part close analysis of the films themselves, and illustrated with numerous excellent frame grabs, Past's book casts a dreamlike spell as it contemplates the past, present, and future of the cinema and moves smoothly between environmental issues and aesthetic and practical concerns.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Note on Translation
On Location: Italian Ecocinema
1. Hydrocarbons, Moving Pictures, Time: Red Desert
2. Location, Dirty Cinema, Toxic Waste, Storytelling: Gomorrah
3. Posthuman Collaboration, Cohabitation, Sacrifice: The Wind Blows Round
4. Silence, Cinema, More-than-Human Sound: Le quattro volte
5. Volcanoes, Transgenerational Memory, Cinema: Return to the Aeolian Islands
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
