Regarding life : animals and the documentary moving image / Belinda Smaill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smaill, Belinda, author.

Series:

SUNY series, horizons of cinema.

SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Animals in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As indicated by the success of such films as March of the Penguins and Food, Inc., the documentary has become the preeminent format for rendering animals and nature onscreen. In Regarding Life, Belinda Smaill brings together examples from a broad array of moving image contexts, including wildlife film and television, advocacy documentary, avant-garde nonfiction, and new media to identify a new documentary terrain in which the representation of animals in the wild and in industrial settings is becoming markedly more complex and increasingly more involved with pivotal ecological debates over species loss, food production, and science.While attending to some of the most discussed documentaries of the last two decades, including Grizzly Man; Food, Inc.; Sweetgrass; Our Daily Bread; and Darwin's Nightmare, the book also draws on lesser-known film examples, and is one of the first to bring film studies understandings to new media such as YouTube. The result is a study that melds film studies and animal studies to explore how documentary films render both humans and animals, and to what political ends.

Contents:

Introduction

Labour, agriculture and long take cinema: working on the surface of the earth

Meat, animals and paradigms of embodiment: documentary identification and the problem of food

Arctic futures and extinction: loss, the archive and (wildlife) film

Antarctica, science and exploration: encounters at the end of the world

The nonfiction of youtube and "naturecams": posthumanism and reflections on agency

In conclusion: documentary, science and the umwelt.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438462509

1438462506