Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the publication of our edited volume on the work of James Benning. Here is the blurb, a list of contents and a link to relevant page at Edinburgh University Press:
James Benning's Environments: Politics, Ecology, Duration
For more than forty years, the experimental filmmaker James Benning has been engaged in a systematic investigation of the relations between man, landscape, and the filmic medium, and during the last decade it has become increasingly clear how much these investigations have to offer to contemporary debates about ecology, the age of the Anthropocene and the potentialities of new digital technologies. In James Benning’s Environments a range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of Benning’s practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work. The volume offers a number of interpretative frameworks drawing on film theory, environmental humanities, visual culture and philosophy, explaining why Benning has emerged as one of today’s essential filmmakers.
Contents
Introduction, Nikolaj Lübecker & Daniele Rugo
I. Intellectual Environments
Surveying James Benning, Scott MacDonald
Utah and the Times, John Beck
Violence and Landscape in the Films of James Benning, Nikolaj Lübecker
II. Material Environments
Constructing the Transversal Time-Image, Colin Gardner
Men in Huts in Woods, Silke Panse
The Earth as Material Film, Felicity Colman
III. Perceptual Environments
A Lake-Event, Tom Conley
Defacing the Close-up, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
The Adventure of Patience, Daniele Rugo
Index
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-james-benning-039-s-environments-hb.html
Best wishes,
Daniele Rugo and Nikolaj Lubecker
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