Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction by Becca Voelcker - 9780520416444

Land Cinema in an Age of ExtractionAuthor(s): Becca Voelcker\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of California Press, United States\nImprint: University of California Press\nISBN-13: 9780520416444, 978-0520416444\nSynopsis\nLand Cinema in an Age of Extractionconsiders nonfiction filmmakers and film collectives whose work advancesan understanding of land as a locus of social and environmental responsibility. Diving into little-known archives to explore films that resonate across geographies, Becca Voelcker unearths key examples of eco-political counterculture, from farmer-filmmakers in Japan and Mali to a gardener-filmmaker in Massachusetts, and from filmed landscape-portraits of women in Los Angeles, Orkney, and the Navajo Nation to Indigenous documentaries about land dispossession in Colombia. Proposing \""land cinema\"" as an urgent genre for our time, this book reveals how images and ideas produced half a century ago sowed the seedsfor climate justice movements today.