Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
The Environmental Documentary: Cinema Activism in the 21st Century de John A. Duvall

The Environmental Documentary: Cinema Activism in the 21st Century

Autor John A. Duvall
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 mai 2017

Descoperim în The Environmental Documentary o analiză senzorială a modului în care cinematografia a încetat să fie un simplu observator al naturii, devenind un instrument de intervenție directă. Încă din primele pagini, suntem invitați să privim dincolo de estetica peisajului, luând ca exemplu impactul visceral al documentarului An Inconvenient Truth, care a transformat datele climatice abstracte într-o experiență vizuală ce a redefinit discursul public. Remarcăm cum autorul, John A. Duvall, utilizează expertiza sa tehnică de fost editor de sunet la Hollywood pentru a decripta mecanismele prin care sunetul și imaginea sunt orchestrate pentru a genera urgență în fața crizei ecologice.

Structura volumului urmărește o progresie logică și alarmantă, de la bazele teoretice ale ecocriticismului spre capitole dedicate unor nișe specifice: de la criza petrolului (Peak Oil) la industria deșeurilor și etica tratării animalelor. Această organizare ne permite să înțelegem cum „miniaturizarea echipamentelor de înregistrare”, menționată de autor, a democratizat activismul, permițând filmelor independente să atingă audiențe globale prin rețele de activiști. Ca și Film and Everyday Eco-disasters, acest volum pune în valoare legătura dintre consumul uman și dezastrele ecologice, dar cu un accent pe impactul politic și pe strategiile de distribuție care transformă un spectator pasiv într-un cetățean informat. Apreciem modul în care The Environmental Documentary se distinge de Framing the World prin concentrarea sa pe secolul XXI și pe documentarul ca formă de rezistență activă, nu doar ca obiect de studiu academic. Este o explorare riguroasă a modului în care cinema-ul documentează nu doar mediul, ci și lupta noastră pentru supraviețuire.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 85842 lei

Preț vechi: 129681 lei
-34%

Puncte Express: 1288
Paperback 24793 lei
Hardback 85842 lei

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 25 mai-08 iunie

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441176110
ISBN-10: 144117611X
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 31 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte studenților la jurnalism, studii de film și activiștilor de mediu care doresc să înțeleagă puterea narativă a documentarului. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care marile probleme globale — de la exploatarea resurselor la malpraxisul corporatist — sunt traduse vizual pentru a influența opinia publică. Este un ghid esențial despre cum imaginea în mișcare poate deveni un catalizator pentru schimbarea politică reală.

Despre autor

John A. Duvall este profesor asociat de comunicare și studii media la Dominican University of California, fiind specializat în producție cinematografică și scriere de scenarii. Experiența sa profesională este una hibridă, îmbinând rigoarea academică cu practica de teren; a produs documentarul Peak Oil and Transition în cadrul tezei sale de doctorat și a lucrat anterior în industria de divertisment de la Hollywood ca editor de efecte sonore. Această dublă perspectivă îi permite să analizeze documentarul de mediu atât ca teoretician, cât și ca practician al imaginii.

Descriere

The Environmental Documentary provides the first extensive coverage of the most important environmental films of the decade, including their approach to their topics and their impacts on public opinion and political debate. While documentaries with themes of environmental activism date back at least to Pare Lorenz's films of the 1930's, no previous decade has produced the number and quality of films that engage environmental issues from an activist viewpoint. The convergence of high profile issues like climate change, fossil fuel depletion, animal abuse, and corporate malfeasance has combined with the miniaturization of high quality recording equipment and the expansion of documentary programming, to produce an unprecedented number of important and influential documentary productions.

The text examines the processes of production and distribution that have produced this explosion in documentaries. The films range from a high-profile Hollywood production with theatrical distribution like An Inconvenient Truth, to shorter independently produced films like The End of Suburbia that have reached a small audience of activists through video distribution, interviews with many of the filmmakers, and word of mouth.

Cuprins

Introduction
1. Documenting the Environment What is a Documentary? What is the Environment?
2. Ecocritical Perspectives
3. A Brief History of the Environmental Documentary The Films
4. General Environmental History and Concerns
5. Climate Change
6. Peak Oil
7. Pollution and Waste
8. Food and Water
9. Animals and Extinction
10. Community and Direct Activism
11. Conclusion
References
Index

Recenzii

Over the last two decades, the environmental documentary subgenre has flourished in tandem with the acceleration of concerns over the environment. Duvall (communications and media studies, Dominican Univ. of California) examines documentaries dealing with environmental issues ranging from species extinction to peak oil (i.e., the point at which the US production of fossil fuels will peak and begin to decline). Duvall demonstrates that the value of films such as An Inconvenient Truth (2006) and GasLand (2010) is their ability to educate the public about crises as much as their commitment to activist reportage. That said, the book offers not so much an argument as a survey. The author relies too much on long descriptive passages of films (some of which are widely available, others not so much) at the expense of critical analysis. The most useful sections of the book are at the beginning: Duvall provides a thematic history of environmental documentaries throughout the 20th century, and he uses Bill Nichols's schema for documentary styles to discuss the environmental films in which he is interested. Like the activists he clearly admires, Duvall is dedicated to consciousness raising; his goal seems to be to get readers to see these films and share them with friends and colleagues. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates; professionals; general readers.
The Environmental Documentary should be in every college and public library as a handy reference work. It provides helpful material about films we have seen and points us in directions for future viewing.
Useful both for readers interested in documentary filmmaking and those interested in the health of the planet and the environmental movement trying to preserve it. Any library ... should certainly consider adding it.
Duval makes a complex and thoroughly controversial genre accessible in a way that would prompt young scholars and students to seriously consider the destructive impact of consumption and neoliberal ideologies on the environment. Teachers may also find Duval's overview helpful in selecting films for classes dealing with environmental issues ... As such, the book itself functions as a piece of activism, raising awareness not only of our responsibility towards our environment, but also putting a spotlight on a genre that has not received as much attention as it should within the discipline of film studies.
Duvall has given us the first book-length overview of the environmental documentary-a rapidly expanding genre that informs and empowers viewers as the process of ecological decline intensifies due to climate change, resource depletion, population growth, and species extinctions. His work is clear, comprehensive, and authoritative. Recommended for students in environment or media courses, for aspiring filmmakers, and for general readers who want to know more about this important genre.
John A. Duvall's The Environmental Documentary: Cinema Activism in the 21st Century offers a wealth of information on the content, production, and distribution of a selection of recent environmental documentaries ranging from The 11th Hour to Rebels with a Cause. The book also provides readers with succinct overviews of the critical debates around key terms such as "documentary" and "environment.'" It will be useful to students at the high school and college level and to everyone else interested in environmental documentary film.
John Duvall has produced a grand catalogue of environmental documentaries made at the start of the twenty-first century. Contemporary students of documentary and environmental studies can find here a wealth of information on themes, styles, and production conditions. Looking back historians will find in his accounts of the films a significant resource logging the deep concerns of activist communities and their passionate attempts to get them into mainstream debates using all the resources that documentary can offer.
The Environmental Documentary: Cinema Activism in the 21st Century is a well-researched journey through significant films of activist documentary producers and directors. Documentary students brimming with idealistic fervor and eager to intervene should benefit from the extensive real world detail on production narratives and audience reception for major environmental documentaries. I believe this book will be spectacularly useful and inspiring in any documentary curriculum.
With the publication of John Duvall's book, twenty-first century eco-activist documentary boasts its first general primer. Duvall's astute and probing analyses of forty-four key films is buttressed by an admirable historical contextualization of the genre. With its well researched overview of the multiple themes, approaches, and challenges in presenting environmental issues on film, the book makes an indispensable resource, not only for students and scholars of documentary and ecocinema, but for audiences and aspiring filmmakers alike.
Does our environmental movement address effects more than causes? Does it chart feasible alternatives? Duvall's book examines the cream of environmental documentaries to answer these and other crucial questions in this comprehensive, engaging book.