Ecstatic Worlds

Media, Utopias, Ecologies

Part of Leonardo

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.

janine

Janine Marchessault is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto.
Series Foreword vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I: Earth 19
1 Anonymous Reality and Redemption in “The Family of Man” 21
2 Invisible Ecologies: Cousteau’s Cameras and Ocean Wonders 53
Part II: Worlds 85
3 T Is for Telekinema: Projecting Future Worlds at the Festival of Britain 87
4 Terre des Hommes / Man and His World: Expo 67 as Global Media Experiment 127
Part III: Planet 159
5 Inflatable Media: Film Festivals, Microcinemas, and Ephemeral Media 165
6 Dolphins in Space, Planetary Thinking 205
Epilogue: An Ecological Approach to Media Studies 249
Notes 267
Bibliography 317
Index 341

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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.

janine

Author

Janine Marchessault is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at York University in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I: Earth 19
1 Anonymous Reality and Redemption in “The Family of Man” 21
2 Invisible Ecologies: Cousteau’s Cameras and Ocean Wonders 53
Part II: Worlds 85
3 T Is for Telekinema: Projecting Future Worlds at the Festival of Britain 87
4 Terre des Hommes / Man and His World: Expo 67 as Global Media Experiment 127
Part III: Planet 159
5 Inflatable Media: Film Festivals, Microcinemas, and Ephemeral Media 165
6 Dolphins in Space, Planetary Thinking 205
Epilogue: An Ecological Approach to Media Studies 249
Notes 267
Bibliography 317
Index 341