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Zoological surrealism : the nonhuman cinema of Jean Painlevé / James Leo Cahill.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.P34525 C34 2019
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LIBRA PN1998.3.P34525 C34 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cahill, James Leo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painlevé, Jean--Criticism and interpretation.
- Painlevé, Jean.
- Science films--History and criticism.
- Science films.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 395 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cahill, James Leo, author. Zoological surrealism the nonhuman cinema of Jean Painlevé
- ISBN:
- 9781517902155
- 1517902150
- 9781517902162
- 1517902169
- OCLC:
- 1057730604
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