Antarctica and Siegfried Kracauer’s Extraterrestrial Film Theory
`Siegfried Kracauer’s film and photographic theory along with cinematic records of early Antarctic exploration explain how this utterly inhospitable continent (Antarctica) and this media theory advance an alternative and denaturalized history of the present. Cinema has the capacity to reveal an eart...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780190696771.003.0006 2023-05-15T14:13:17+02:00 Antarctica and Siegfried Kracauer’s Extraterrestrial Film Theory Fay, Jennifer 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696771.003.0006 unknown Oxford University Press Oxford Scholarship Online book 2018 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696771.003.0006 2022-08-05T10:32:13Z `Siegfried Kracauer’s film and photographic theory along with cinematic records of early Antarctic exploration explain how this utterly inhospitable continent (Antarctica) and this media theory advance an alternative and denaturalized history of the present. Cinema has the capacity to reveal an earth outside of human feeling and utility without sacrificing the particularity that gets lost in scientific abstraction. And Antarctica, for so long outside of human history altogether, simply numbs feeling and refuses to yield to human purpose. It is also a continent on which celluloid encounters its signifying limits. Kracauer, this chapter argues, helps us to imagine an estranged and selfless relationship to an inhospitable or even posthospitable earth that may not accommodate us. Book Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Oxford University Press (via Crossref) Antarctic |
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`Siegfried Kracauer’s film and photographic theory along with cinematic records of early Antarctic exploration explain how this utterly inhospitable continent (Antarctica) and this media theory advance an alternative and denaturalized history of the present. Cinema has the capacity to reveal an earth outside of human feeling and utility without sacrificing the particularity that gets lost in scientific abstraction. And Antarctica, for so long outside of human history altogether, simply numbs feeling and refuses to yield to human purpose. It is also a continent on which celluloid encounters its signifying limits. Kracauer, this chapter argues, helps us to imagine an estranged and selfless relationship to an inhospitable or even posthospitable earth that may not accommodate us. |
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