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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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
