Ocean pictures: the construction of the ocean on film

Common filmic tropes of the ocean draw upon ideas that go back to the novels of Herman Melville and Jules Verne, who constructed the ocean respectively as a hostile wilderness and a watery Eden. Two of the earliest and most influential underwater filmmakers, Jacques Cousteau and Jean Painleve, emplo...

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Main Author: Kennerson, Elliott Doran
Language:en
Published: 2008
Online Access:http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/kennerson/KennersonE1208.pdf