330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
The story is now familiar. In the late 1960s humanity finally saw photographic evidence of the Earth in space for the first time. According to this narrative, the impact of such images in the consolidation of a planetary consciousness is yet to be matched. This book tells a different story. It argues that this narrative has failed to account for the vertiginous global imagination underpinning the... Read more
List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 Sublime Earth, 2 The Unseen World Across the World, 3 The Universal Equality of Things, 4 The Face of the World, 5 A Networked Humanity, 6 A Disappearing Planet, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Tiago de Luca is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality (2014), and the editor (with Nuno Barradas Jorge) of Slow Cinema (2016) and (with Lúcia Nagib and Luciana Corrêa de Araújo) Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (2022). He is the editor, with Lúcia Nagib, of the Film Thinks series.
