Italian ecocinema beyond the human /

Entangled in the hybrid fields of ecomedia studies and material ecocriticism, Elena Past examines five Italian films shot on location and ponders the complex relationships that the production crews developed with the filming locations and the nonhuman cast members. She uses these films--Red Desert (...

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Main Author: Past, Elena (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2019
Series:New directions in national cinemas.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • On location: Italian ecocinema
  • Hydrocarbons, moving pictures, time: Red Desert
  • Location, dirty cinema, toxic waste, storytelling: Gomorrah
  • Posthuman collaboration, cohabitation, sacrifice: The Wind Blows Round
  • Silence, cinema, more-than-human sound: Le Quattro Volte
  • Volcanoes, transgenerational memory, cinema: Return to the Aeolian Islands
  • Epilogue.