TY - BOOK ID - 77886869 TI - The Cinematic Footprint PY - 2011 SN - 1283864711 081355196X 9780813551968 9780813551388 9780813551395 0813551382 0813551390 9781283864718 PB - New Brunswick, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion picture industry KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - Film industry (Motion pictures) KW - Moving-picture industry KW - Cultural industries KW - Production and direction KW - Environmental aspects. KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77886869 AB - Film is often used to represent the natural landscape and, increasingly, to communicate environmentalist messages. Yet behind even today’s “green” movies are ecologically unsustainable production, distribution, and consumption processes. Noting how seemingly immaterial moving images are supported by highly durable resource-dependent infrastructures, The Cinematic Footprint traces the history of how the “hydrocarbon imagination” has been central to the development of film as a medium. Nadia Bozak’s innovative fusion of film studies and environmental studies makes provocative connections between the disappearance of material resources and the emergence of digital media—with examples ranging from early cinema to Dziga Vertov’s prescient eye, from Chris Marker’s analog experiments to the digital work of Agnès Varda, James Benning, and Zacharias Kunuk. Combining an analysis of cinema technology with a sensitive consideration of film aesthetics, The Cinematic Footprint offers a new perspective on moving images and the natural resources that sustain them. ER -