This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of film in the context of the Anthropocene: the new geological era in which human beings have collectively become a force of nature. Daniel White draws on perspectives in philosophy, ecology, and cybernetics (the science of communication and control in animals and machines) to explore human self-understanding through film in the new era. The classical figure of Janus, looking both to the future and the past, serves as a guide throughout the study. Both feature and documentary films are considered.
Chapter 1: Introduction Stepping into the Play Frame: Cinema as Mammalian Communication
Chapter 2: Januss Celluloid and Digital Faces: The Existential Cyborg: Autopoisis in Christopher Nolans Memento
Chapter 3: Documentary Intertext: Robert Gardners Dead Birds 1964
Chapter 4: Cinemas Historical Incarnations: Travelling the M?bius Strip of Biotime in Cloud Atlas
From Novel to Film
Chapter 5: Documentary Intertext: John Marshalls The Hunters 1957
Chapter 6: Janus Speaks: Multicultural Polyvocality: Trinh Minh-has The Fourth Dimension and The Digital Film Event
Chapter 7: Documentary Intertext: Gregory Batesons and Margaret Meads Trance and Dance in Bali 1952
Chapter 8: Januss Interspecies Faces: Biomorphic Transformations in the Ecology of Mind in James Camerons Avatar
Chapter 9: Documentary Intertext: J. Stephen Lansings and Andr? Singers The Goddess and the Computer
Chapter 10: Conclusion: Toward a Transdisciplinary Critical Theory of Film
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