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

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Other Authors: Lawrence, Michael (Editor), McMahon, Laura (Editor)
Other title:Animal life & the moving image.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Palgrave, on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: animal lives and moving images / Laura McMahon and Michael Lawrence
  • Animal life and cinematic specificity. Animal photogénie : the wild side of French film theory's first wave / James Leo Cahill ; Cats and the moving image : feline cinematicity from Lumière to Maru / Rosalind Galt ; Buñuel's bull meets YouTube's lion : surrealist and digital posthumanisms / Adam Lowenstein ; Muybridgean motion/materialist film : Malcolm Le Grice's Berlin horse / Michael Lawrence
  • Cross-species identifications. 'You can see what species I belong to, but don't treat me lightly' : rhetorics of representation in animated animal narratives / Paul Wells ; A cut or a dissolve? : insects and identification in Microcosmos / Georgina Evans ; Subjunctive desires : becoming animal in Green porno and Seduce me / Cynthia Chris ; Animal melancholia : on the scent of Dean Spanley / Lynn Turner
  • Animal economies. King Kong capitalism / Julian Murphet ; Animal life and moral agency in post-war cinema : Velma Johnston, Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller and John Huston's The misfits / Robert McKay ; Being struck : on the force of slaughter and cinematic affect / Nicole Shukin and Sarah O'Brien ; Screening pigs : visibility, materiality and the production of species / Laura McMahon
  • Towards a non-anthropocentric cinema. Animal life in the cinematic Umwelt / Anat Pick ; Bear images : human performativity and animal touch in Grizzly man / Cecilia Novero ;The tumult of integrations out of the sky : the movement of birds and film's ornithology / Jonathan Burt ; Unknowing animals : wild bird films and the limits of knowledge / Susan McHugh ; Hitchcock : the animal, life and death / Raymond Bellour.