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EMI’s cinematic materialism (a response to reviews)

Posted in GeoPhilosophy, MediaSpace, tagged , , , , , on December 29, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

The latest issue of the open-access Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, an issue devoted to “Gilles Deleuze and Moving Images,” includes a review by Niall Flynn of my book Ecologies of the Moving Image. Another recent review of EMI can be found in the The Journal of Ecocriticism. And I’ve mentioned the Environmental Humanities […]

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SCMS Media & Environment group

Posted in EcoCulture, MediaSpace, Xyz..., tagged , , on March 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »

The Media and Environment Scholarly Interest Group just won the prize for best attended business meeting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Or so we were informed by the SCMS interest group liaison present at the meeting. This year’s SCMS featured what to my mind was by far the largest assemblage of panels and papers […]

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Whiteheadian films

Posted in MediaSpace, tagged , , , , on January 16, 2014 | 3 Comments »

Readers of this blog know that my recent book presents what’s essentially a Whiteheadian (and Peircian) theory of cinema. (A theory, not the theory. And when compared to something as deeply Whiteheadian in its details as, say, Donald Sherburne’s A Whiteheadian Aesthetic, mine is, at best, “inspired by Whitehead.”)

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50 years

Posted in ImageNation, MediaSpace, tagged , , , on November 16, 2013 | 1 Comment »

A. O. Scott’s article on the Abraham Zapruder film of JFK’s assassination captures something of the 50-year transition from the first cinéma vérité president (Kennedy) to a world in which everyone is their own cinéma vérité celebrity — stars and legends in our own minds. The Zapruder film in a sense predates all that — it comes […]

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Mormon film ecologies

Posted in MediaSpace, tagged , , , on November 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

I did a double-take when a producer from BYU Radio — Brigham Young University’s faith-and-values based talk radio station, which broadcasts to millions around the world through Sirius XM satellite radio — approached me for an interview about Ecologies of the Moving Image. I presume the majority of listeners are members of the Church of […]

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Documenting the act of killing

Posted in ImageNation, Politics, tagged , , , , , on October 23, 2013 | 1 Comment »

The following is reblogged, excerpted and modified, from e²mc. How do films deal with historical atrocities? And how might they enable them in the first place? The Act of Killing is Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling documentary about the perpetrators of the mass murders committed by the Suharto regime’s paramilitary death squads in mid-1960s Indonesia. The filmmakers […]

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EMI online course

Posted in MediaSpace, tagged , , , on September 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

Cross-posting from e2mc: I’ve begun teaching a course on film and ecology and using my book Ecologies of the Moving Image as the main text. Since the topic is related to the theme of this blog, and since I’ll be creating reading guides and posting links to film clips and related materials for my students, […]

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Preparing my Peirce Centennial proposal

Posted in MediaSpace, tagged , , , , , on July 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment »

It will be quite an event for Peirce scholars. My proposed paper will be on applications of Peirce to film theory, and in particular the two neo- (quasi-?) Peircian approaches that I present in Ecologies of the Moving Image. The first of these builds on Sean Cubitt’s three-part typology of the image (pixel–cut–vector, which I […]

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How a film becomes a subject

Posted in MediaSpace, tagged , , on May 28, 2013 | 1 Comment »

A key question for a process-relational account of a film is the question of how that film shows objects and subjects in the process of being made — how it shows subjectivation and objectivation arising together. Much of Ecologies of the Moving Image is about this, but what remains more implicit throughout the book is the way […]

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Stalking the book…

Posted in MediaSpace, tagged , , , , on May 22, 2013 | 1 Comment »

Teaching my film course (especially in its current rendition as “Ecology Film Philosophy”) and the book that goes with it (Ecologies of the Moving Image, which will be publicly available in July) — and especially teaching the Andrei Tarkovsky film Stalker, which serves as a sort of template for the book — makes me feel […]

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