| Description |
xvi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Animal photogénie : the wild side of French film theory's first wave / James Leo Cahill -- 2. Cats and the moving image : feline cinematicity from Lumière 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 |
| Notes |
"A BFI book published by Palgrave." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Animal films -- History and criticism.
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Animals in mass media.
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Animals in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- History.
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Wildlife films -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Lawrence, Michael, 1973- editor of compilation
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McMahon, Laura, editor of compilation
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British Film Institute, issuing body
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| ISBN |
1844578992 |
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184457900X |
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9781844578993 |
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9781844579006 |
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