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Title:

Animal life and the moving image / edited by Michael Lawrence & Laura McMahon.

Publisher:

Palgraveon behalf of the British Film Institute,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xvi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Animals in motion pictures.
Animals in mass media.
Animal films--History and criticism.
Wildlife films--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Lawrence, Michael, editor of compilation.
McMahon, Laura, editor of compilation.
British Film Institute, issuing body.

Notes:

"A BFI book published by Palgrave." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

1. Animal photog©♭nie : the wild side of French film theory's first wave / James Leo Cahill -- 2. Cats and the moving image : feline cinematicity from Lumi©·re to Maru / Rosalind Galt -- 3. Bu©łuel'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.

ISBN:

184457900X
9781844579006
1844578992
9781844578993

OCLC:

(OCoLC)915494972

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)