James Benning's Environments

Politics, Ecology, Duration

192 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

For 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.

• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Film, Kino Technische Kenntnisse und Hintergrundwissen
• ISBN: 9781474417945
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.11.2017
• Größe: 239 x 162 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Daniele Rugo, Nikolaj Lübecker