June 12, 2015
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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One of the films that gets a lengthy treatment in my book Ecologies of the Moving Image is Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man, about the death of Timothy Treadwell at the hands of a brown bear in Alaska. I characterized it there as … Continue reading
November 13, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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These are further notes on Chapter 6 of EMI… 1. Trauma and the eco-image One of the themes of this chapter is the connection between films about ecological disaster — real, imagined, or potential (future disaster) — and films about … Continue reading
November 2, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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The second week of the animality and “biomorphism” chapter (chapter 5) moved us into an exploration of human-animal interactions and human “becomings-animal.” A screening of Werner Herzog’s “Grizzly Man” (discussed extensively in the chapter) was supplemented by bits and pieces … Continue reading
October 23, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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The class went on a field trip to see The Act of Killing last week, which fit our reading of Chapter 4 of Ecologies of the Moving Image better than I could have planned. (That’s the chapter that deals with … Continue reading
October 13, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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What Chapter 3 did with the world (and, specifically, nature), Chapter 4 does with people (and, specifically, their relation to nature). In particular, it deals with contrasts between a normative, “modern” (western, industrial) relationship to nature and a non-normative one: … Continue reading
October 6, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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The following are some notes of relevance to Chapter 3 of the book. I’ve also added a Glossary of terms used in the book (and some used elsewhere), here; I’ll add terms periodically.
September 30, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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Continuing with notes for Chapter 2, beginning at p. 49… 1) Chapter 2 (from p. 49 on): (a) “Peirce’s Categories and the Film Experience” The first three paragraphs
September 17, 2013
by Adrian J Ivakhiv
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The following notes are reading notes provided to students in an upper-level undergraduate course entitled “Ecopolitics and the Cinema.” The course name is a little outdated, as the course has evolved in the direction of an ecophilosophical exploration of cinema, … Continue reading