Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth

by Tiago de Luca

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 media and film culture of the late nineteenth century...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9463729623
• ISBN13: 9789463729628
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 330 Pages