Elemental World Cinema : Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air /

Elemental World Cinema : Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air /

This is the first book-length study on the relationship between cinema and the classical elements. It centres on earth, fire, water and air to offer new perspectives on the intersection of film and the nonhuman in a time of climate emergency. Mobilising a range of analytical frameworks, including ea...

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Other Authors: Luca, Tiago de (Editor), Mroz, Matilda (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Contemporary Cinema ; 12.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air>
  •   Tiago de Luca and Matilda Mroz
  • PART 1: Troubling Terrain: Framing the Agencies of Stone and Soil
  • 1 Abbas Kiarostami, Global Art Cinema and the Material Imagination of Earth 29
  •   Graig Uhlin
  • 2 Earth After Death: Posthumous Cinematic Ecologies in Holocaust Documentary Film 48
  •   Matilda Mroz
  • PART 2: Scorched Earth: Cinemas of Eruption and Combustion
  • 3 Elemental Documentary: Fire, Forensics and Pyro-Epistemologies 73
  •   Patrick Brian Smith
  • 4 Cinema as Volcano: Thinking Cinema Through the Volcano with Malena Szlam, Werner Herzog and Jean Epstein 95
  •   Jessica Mulvogue
  • 5 Tectonic Memories: Film, Geology and Archives in Diana Vidrașcu's Volcano: What Does a Lake Dream? (2019) 116
  •   Toby Ashworth
  • PART 3: Liquid Poetics: Seas, Rivers and Anticolonial Currents
  • 6 Untamed Storms: Cinema's Oceanic Contingency and Mati Diop's Atlantics  139
  •   Laurence Kent
  • 7 Imagining the Elements with Gaston Bachelard and Claire Denis: 'Weighted' Images, Drift and Diffusion in L'Intrus/The Intruder  157
  •   Saige Walton
  • 8 Animated Waters and the Circulation of Indigenous Instruction 177
  •   Joanna Hearne
  • PART 4: Clouded Visions: Atmospheric Contingencies
  • 9 Stormy Images: Elemental Kinetics in the Recent Films of Takashi Makino (2018-2021) 203
  •   Kaya Turan
  • 10 Nebulous Cinema 225
  •   Tiago de Luca
  • 11 Geoblocking the Sun: Solar Eclipses in Transnational Artists' Film 248
  •   Stefan Solomon
  • Index.