Introduction: cinema's Copernican vocation -- Neozoological dramas: comparative anatomy by other means -- Metamorphoses: crustaceans, the coming of sound, and plasmatic anthropomorphism -- Amour flou: the seahorse and the blur of sex -- Substitutes, vectors, and the circulatory systems of modernity: Dr. Normet's serum: experimental treatment of a hemorrhage in a dog and the vampire -- Carnivorous cinema: freshwater assassins and the blood of the beasts -- Conclusion: unfinished revolutions, untimely nature.
Summary:
"This critical history examines the work of zoological and science film pioneers Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon from 1924-1949, illuminating the significant contributions that their wildlife cinema made to philosophical and political thought"-- Provided by publisher.
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