Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• London ; New York : Palgrave, on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2015.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lawrence, M. J. (Michael James)
• McMahon, Laura
• British Film Institute, issuing body.

Description

xvi, 303 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Animal life & the moving image

Subjects

• Wildlife films
• Animals in mass media
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Animal films > History and criticism
• Wildlife films > History and criticism
• Animals in motion pictures

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "A BFI book published by Palgrave."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

MFL 16-1967

ISBN

• 9781844579006
• 184457900X
• 9781844578993
• 1844578992

OCLC

915494972

Title

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

Publisher

London ; New York : Palgrave, on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lawrence, M. J. (Michael James), editor.

McMahon, Laura, editor.

British Film Institute, issuing body.

Cover Title

Animal life & the moving image

Research Call Number

MFL 16-1967