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Animal life and the moving image, edited by Michael Lawrence and Laura McMahon

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Animal life and the moving image, edited by Michael Lawrence and Laura McMahon
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Animal life and the moving image
Responsibility statement
edited by Michael Lawrence and Laura McMahon
Summary
This cutting-edge collection of essays by the most important writers working on animal life and moving image culture addresses the theoretical, philosophical, political and ethical questions raised by images of animals. Thorough and timely, it considers a wide range of film, television, video and digital texts - from early cinema to YouTube
Table Of 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. Bunuel'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
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