Animal life and the moving image. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Michael Lawrence, Laura McMahon.
• Editors: Lawrence, Michael, 1973-; McMahon, Laura
• Contents: Foreword; Akira Mizuta Lippit.- Introduction: Animal Lives and the Moving Image; Michael Lawrence and Laura McMahon.- PART 1: ANIMAL LIFE AND CINEMATIC SPECIFICITY.- 1. Animal Photogenie: The Wild Side of French Film Theory's First Wave; James Leo Cahill.- 2. Cats and the Moving Image: Feline Cinematicity from Lumiere to Maru; Rosalind Galt.- 3. Buñuel's Bull Meets YouTube's Lion: Surrealist and Digital Posthumanisms; Adam Lowenstein.- 4. Muybridgean Motion.- Materialist Film: Malcolm Le Grice's Berlin Horse; Michael Lawrence.- PART 2: CROSS-SPECIES INDENTIFICATIONS.- 5. 'You Can See What Species I Belong To, But Don't Treat Me Lightly': Rhetorics of Representation in Animated Animal Narratives; Paul Wells.- 6. A Cut or a Dissolve? Insects and Identification in Microcosmos; Georgina Evans.- 7. Subjunctive Desires: Becoming Animal in Green Porno and Seduce Me; Cynthia Chris.- 8. Animal Melancholia: On the Scent of Dean Spanley; Lynn Turner.- PART 3: ANIMAL ECONOMIES 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.
• Publisher Details: London : British Film Institute
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: 791.43662; Animals in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781838714376; 1838714375
• Related ISBNs: 9781844578993
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