Film Landscapes of the Anthropocene Era: Exploration, Exploitation, Existence
Małgorzata Radkiewicz
m.radkiewicz@uj.edu.plJagiellonian University (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6387-0810
Abstract
The author examines film landscapes in terms of exploration, exploitation, and existence, which are defined in the context of posthuman and post-colonial studies. These terms allow her to analyse various relations between landscapes and human and non-human subjects/actors, recalling different forms of their co-operation and com-passion, as described by Rosi Braidotti, Ann Laura Stoler, and Anthropocene researchers. After a closer examination of selected films, the author argues that landscapes are represented as polysensory phenomena, which engage film characters and shape their relations with environmental and social realities. Joanna Żylińska’s concept of posthuman photography helps to go beyond human experience and focus on the dynamics and existence of landscapes, especially in images that discuss people-centred ways of representation.
Keywords:
post-humanity, landscape, ruins, relational subjectivityReferences
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Małgorzata Radkiewiczm.radkiewicz@uj.edu.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6387-0810
Professor at the Institute of Audiovisual Arts at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). Her research concerns contemporary cinema, gender, and women’s work in the areas of film, photography, and the arts. She published a book about women filmmakers (2001), and another one on Polish cinema of the 1990s (2006). In her book Władczynie spojrzenia. Teoria filmu a praktyka reżyserek i artystek [Female Gaze: Film Theory and Practice of Women Directors and Artists] (2010), she addresses women’s cinema and art in terms of feminist theory. In Oblicza kina queer [Faces of Queer Cinema] (2014), she analyses selected films dealing with queerness, sexuality, and gender. Her latest book, Modernistki o kinie. Kobiety w polskiej krytyce i publicystyce filmowej 1918-1939 [Women Modernists on Cinema: Women in Polish Film Criticism 1918-1939] (2016), she presents Polish female film critics of the 1920s and 1930s, quoting original articles and archive materials.
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