Animal Life and the Moving Image. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Lawrence, Laura McMahon.
• Editors: Lawrence, Michael, 1973-; McMahon, Laura
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Medium Foreword; Introduction: Animal Lives and Moving Images; PART 1: ANIMAL LIFE AND CINEMATIC SPECIFICITY; 1 Animal Photogénie: The Wild Side of French Film Theory's First Wave; 2 Cats and the Moving Image: Feline Cinematicity from Lumière to Maru; 3 Buñuel's Bull Meets YouTube's Lion: Surrealist and Digital Posthumanisms; 4 Muybridgean Motion/Materialist Film: Malcolm Le Grice's Berlin Horse; PART 2: CROSS-SPECIES IDENTIFICATIONS 5 'You Can See What Species I Belong to, but Don't Treat Me Lightly': Rhetorics of Representation in Animated Animal Narratives6 A Cut or a Dissolve?: Insects and Identification in Microcosmos; 7 Subjunctive Desires: Becoming Animal in Green Porno and Seduce Me; 8 Animal Melancholia: On the Scent of Dean Spanley; PART 3: ANIMAL ECONOMIES; 9 King Kong Capitalism; 10 Animal Life and Moral Agency in Post-war Cinema: Velma Johnston, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller and John Huston's The Misfits; 11 Being Struck: On the Force of Slaughter and Cinematic Affect 12 Screening Pigs: Visibility, Materiality and the Production of SpeciesPART 4: TOWARDS A NONANTHROPOCENTRIC CINEMA; 13 Animal Life in the Cinematic Umwelt; 14 Bear Images: Human Performativity and Animal Touch in Grizzly Man; 15 The Tumult of Integrations Out of the Sky: The Movement of Birds and Film's Ornithology; 16 Unknowing Animals: Wild Bird Films and the Limits of Knowledge; 17 Hitchcock -- The Animal, Life and Death; Index
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43662; Media Studies; Animals in motion pictures; Animals in mass media; Animal films -- History and criticism; Wildlife films -- History and criticism; Motion pictures -- History; Media Studies; Animals; Films, cinema; Media studies; Communication; Animals; Films, cinema; Media studies; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781844579013; 1844579018
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.