{"id":6185,"date":"2012-10-22T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2021-06-10T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:02:46","slug":"2-or-3-things-about-the-cinema-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2012\/10\/22\/2-or-3-things-about-the-cinema-book\/","title":{"rendered":"2 or 3 things about the cinema book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_EWY1PJsPzBA\/Sy7A-os24mI\/AAAAAAAAAyI\/71YlZjgAk8M\/s400\/stalker26.jpg?resize=321%2C241\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ecologies of the Moving Image<\/em> is a book of ecophilosophy that happens to be about cinema, and about the 12-decade history of cinema at that.<\/p>\n<p>What makes it <em>ecophilosophy?<\/em> It is philosophy that is deeply informed both by an understanding of ecological science and an interdisciplinary appreciation for today&#8217;s ecological crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Why <em>cinema<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The short answer is: why not? The longer answer is: because the world of the moving image is also the world of petrochemical energy, industrial production, high-speed movement, and global transportation and communication. They are one and the same and would not be what they are <em>without<\/em> moving images. So it&#8217;s an ecophilosophy of the world as it is, and as it is <em>changing,<\/em> by way of an ecophilosophy of cinema &#8212; which too is changing, rapidly, all around us.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 films get a paragraph or more of discussion in <em>Ecologies of the Moving Image<\/em>. Three get 10 or more pages. They are:<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif?w=500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Stalker<\/em> (A. Tarkovsky, 1979)<\/li>\n<li><em>Avatar<\/em> (J. Cameron, 2009)<\/li>\n<li><em>Grizzly Man<\/em> (W. Herzog, 2005)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another three get between 5 and 10 pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Prospero&#8217;s Books<\/em> (P. Greenaway, 1991)<\/li>\n<li><em>King Kong<\/em> (M. C. Cooper &amp; E. B. Schoedsack, 1933)<\/li>\n<li><em>Nanook of the North<\/em> (R. Flaherty, 1922)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Tree of Life <\/em>(T. Malick, 2011)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Wicker Man <\/em>(R. Hardy, 1973)<\/li>\n<li><em>Daughters of the Dust<\/em> (J. Dash, 1991)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The others include <em>Earth (Zemlya,<\/em> Aleksandr Dovzhenko&#8217;s 1929 silent film<em>)<\/em><em>, Melancholia<\/em> (von Trier),<em> The New World<\/em> (Malick),<em> Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Jonah Who Will be 25 in the Year<\/em> 2000 (A. Tanner),<em> Deliverance, Darwin&#8217;s Nightmare, Lessons of Darkness<\/em> (Herzog),<em> <\/em><em>March of the Penguins, Happy Feet,<\/em> Winged Migration, the<em> Planet Earth <\/em>series,<em> Bambi, Days of Heaven<\/em> (Malick),<em> The Searchers<\/em> (J. Ford),<em> The Day After Tomorrow, Zoo<\/em> (the weird Robinson Devor doc about zoophilia)<em>, Un Chien Delicieux<\/em> (a relatively unknown film by Ken Feingold),<em> The Plow that Broke the Plains,<\/em> <em>Up the Yangtze, Easy Rider, Baraka,<\/em> and <em>An Inconvenient Truth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But mostly it&#8217;s a book of eco-film-philosophy. The book should come out somewhere around the 400-page mark, and is scheduled to appear in print in May or June.<\/p>\n<p>The cover will likely be a still from <em>Stalker<\/em> &#8212; like the one above, of the men sitting outside the Room (which allegedly makes one&#8217;s deepest wish come true) in the Zone.<\/p>\n<p>The Zone is the Zone of Cinema. The camera is in the Zone. We don&#8217;t see it; we are it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecologies of the Moving Image is a book of ecophilosophy that happens to be about cinema, and about the 12-decade history of cinema at that. 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