Elemental World Cinema
Cinematic Entanglements of Earth, Fire, Water and Air
Series: Contemporary Cinema; 12;
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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 24 July 2025
- ISBN 9789004735118
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 489 g
- Language English 681
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Short description:
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.
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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 early film theory, Indigenous epistemologies and environmental sciences, the essays in this collection trace the complex agencies of the elements as they intersect with the material properties of the cinematic image across fiction, animation, documentary and experimental film. In doing so, the book positions elemental cinema as a multifaceted process and experience that might encompass attempts to think with, alongside or even ‘like’ the elemental, all the while recognising the limitations of our anthropocentric systems of meaning.
MoreTable 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
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