Cinema of Extractions - Film Materials and Their Forms

Brian Jacobson traces the surprising and inextricable connections between extractive industries and cinema, developing new ways to read films in light of the typically unseen material practices out of which they are built.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Extractive and Extracted Media
1. Early Cinemas of Extraction
2. From Extractions to Resource Integration
3. Mining Media, or, Elemental Energy for Motion Pictures
4. Industrial Film’s Spectacular and Prosaic Poetics
Conclusion: Counter-Cinemas of Extraction
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Brian Jacobson is professor of visual culture at the California Institute of Technology. He is the author of Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic Space (2015) and editor of In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments (2020).

Summary

Brian Jacobson traces the surprising and inextricable connections between extractive industries and cinema, developing new ways to read films in light of the typically unseen material practices out of which they are built.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Jacobson, Brian (University of Toronto Jacobson
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2025
• EAN: 9780231213585
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21358-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Television, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Films, cinema, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism