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Animal Life and the Moving Image
Animal Life and the Moving Image
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Description
From the proto-cinematic sequencing of animal motion in the nineteenth century to the ubiquity of animal videos online, the histories of animal life and the moving image are enigmatically interlocked.
Animal Life and the Moving Image is the first collection of essays to offer a sustained focus on the relations between screen cultures and non-human animals. The volume brings together some of the most important and influential writers working on the non-human animal's significance for cultures and theories of the moving image. It offers innovative analyses of the representation of animals across a wide range of documentary, fiction, mainstream and avant-garde practices, from early cinema to contemporary
user-generated media. Individual chapters consider King Kong, The Birds, The Misfits, The Cove, Grizzly Man and Microcosmos, the work of Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Bresson, Malcolm Le Grice, Peter Greenaway, Carolee Schneemann and Isabella Rossellini, and YouTube stars Christian the lion and Maru the cat.
Table of Contents
9. King Kong Capitalism; Julian Murphet.- 10. Animal Life and Moral Agency in Post-war Cinema: Velma Johnston, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller and John Huston's The Misfits; Robert McKay.- 11. Being Struck: On the Force of Slaughter and Cinematic Affect; Nicole Shukin and Sarah O'Brien.- 12. Screening Pigs: Visibility, Materiality and the Production of Species; Laura McMahon.- PART 4: TOWARDS A NON-ANTHROPOCENTRIC CINEMA.- 13. Animal Life in the Cinematic Umwelt; Anat Pick.- 14. Bear Images: Human Performativity and Animal Touch in Grizzly Man; Cecilia Novero.- 15. The Tumult of Integrations Out of the Sky: The Movement of Birds and Film's Ornithology; Jonathan Burt.- 16. Unknowing Animals: Wild Bird Films and the Limits of Knowledge; Susan McHugh.- 17. Hitchcock: The Animal, Life and Death; Raymond Bellour.- Index.
Product details
Published | 25 Jul 2019 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 320 |
ISBN | 9781838714376 |
Imprint | British Film Institute |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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