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Italian 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.



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Part 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 Contents

Acknowledgments


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

Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 09/01/2019
      ISBN13: 9780253039484, 978-0253039484
      ISBN10: 0253039487
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      Conservation of the environment

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Italian 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 Review

      Part 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.

      * Choice *

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments


      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

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