Ecstatic Worlds
Media, Utopias, Ecologies
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2017
- Category
- Film & Video, Digital, Media Studies
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780262036467
- Publish Date
- Aug 2017
- List Price
- $47.00
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Description
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's “Family of Man,” Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope.
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About the author
Janine Marchessault is a professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University and holds a York Research Chair in Media Art and Social Engagement. Her research engages with the history of large-screen media (from multiscreen to IMAX to media as architecture and VR); diverse models of public art, festivals, and site-specific curation; 21st century moving-image archives; and notions of collective memory/history.