The Cinematic Footprint

Lights, Camera, Natural Resources

Nadia Bozak

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Rutgers University Press
20 October 2011

Cinema industry; Applied ecology

"Film is often used to represent the natural landscape and, increasingly, to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even today's ""green"" movies are ecologically unsustainable production, distribution, and consumption processes. Noting how seemingly immaterial moving images are supported by highly durable resource-dependent infrastructures, The Cinematic Footprint traces the history of how the ""hydrocarbon imagination"" has been central to the development of film as a medium.

Nadia Bozak's innovative fusion of film studies and environmental studies makes provocative connections between the disappearance of material resources and the emergence of digital media-with examples ranging from early cinema to Dziga Vertov's prescient eye, from Chris Marker's analog experiments to the digital work of Agnes Varda, James Benning, and Zacharias Kunuk. Combining an analysis of cinema technology with a sensitive consideration of film aesthetics, The Cinematic Footprint offers a new perspective on moving images and the natural resources that sustain them."

By: Nadia Bozak
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9780813551395
ISBN 10: 0813551390
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 20 October 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Energy 2. Resource 3. Extraction 4. Excess 5. Waste Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

NADIA BOZAK holds a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Toronto. She is also a published novelist.

Reviews for The Cinematic Footprint: Lights, Camera, Natural Resources

Bozak's arguements are illuminating and thought-provoking. The Cinematic Footprint is a must read for anyone interested in the developing canon of ecocinema studies.