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James Benning's Environments : Politics, Ecology, Duration / Nikolaj Lübecker, Daniele Rugo.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) : 20 colour illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781474417945
  • 9781474470346
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430233092 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Intellectual Environments -- Surveying James Benning -- Utah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret -- Violence and Landscape in the Films of James Benning -- Material Environments -- Constructing the Transversal Time-image: Ecosophy, Immanence, and Corporate “Land” in James Benning’s Four Corners and California Trilogy -- Men in Huts in Woods: Independence, Transcendentalism, and Technology in James Benning’s Thoreau and Kaczynski Documentaries and Exhibition -- The Earth as Material Film: Benning’s Light Glance Making a Material-Image -- Perceptual Environments -- A Lake-Event -- Defacing the Close-Up -- The Adventure of Patience -- Filmography -- Index
Summary: A critical exploration of James Benning’s films, the material environments they explore and the perceptual environments they createFor more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, landscape, and the filmic medium, and during the last decade it has become increasingly clear how much these investigations have to offer to contemporary debates about ecology, the age of the anthropocene and the potentialities of new digital technologies. In James Benning’s Environments a range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of Benning’s practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work. The volume offers a number of interpretative frameworks drawing on film theory, environmental humanities, visual culture and philosophy, explaining why Benning has emerged as one of today’s essential filmmakers.Key FeaturesContextualises Benning’s work in relation to the most important artistic and socio-historical influences on his filmmakingAnalyses Benning as an eco-filmmaker with perspectives from environmental studies and eco-cinemaOffers philosophical approaches to Benning’s films in view of their aesthetic, political and epistemological import
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contributors -- Intellectual Environments -- Surveying James Benning -- Utah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret -- Violence and Landscape in the Films of James Benning -- Material Environments -- Constructing the Transversal Time-image: Ecosophy, Immanence, and Corporate “Land” in James Benning’s Four Corners and California Trilogy -- Men in Huts in Woods: Independence, Transcendentalism, and Technology in James Benning’s Thoreau and Kaczynski Documentaries and Exhibition -- The Earth as Material Film: Benning’s Light Glance Making a Material-Image -- Perceptual Environments -- A Lake-Event -- Defacing the Close-Up -- The Adventure of Patience -- Filmography -- Index

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A critical exploration of James Benning’s films, the material environments they explore and the perceptual environments they createFor more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, landscape, and the filmic medium, and during the last decade it has become increasingly clear how much these investigations have to offer to contemporary debates about ecology, the age of the anthropocene and the potentialities of new digital technologies. In James Benning’s Environments a range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of Benning’s practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work. The volume offers a number of interpretative frameworks drawing on film theory, environmental humanities, visual culture and philosophy, explaining why Benning has emerged as one of today’s essential filmmakers.Key FeaturesContextualises Benning’s work in relation to the most important artistic and socio-historical influences on his filmmakingAnalyses Benning as an eco-filmmaker with perspectives from environmental studies and eco-cinemaOffers philosophical approaches to Benning’s films in view of their aesthetic, political and epistemological import

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