James Leo Cahill

Zoological Surrealism

The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painleve

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Produktbeschreibung

ZoologicalSurrealism

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 582g
• ISBN-13: 9781517902162
• ISBN-10: 1517902169
• Artikelnr.: 54323933

Autorenporträt

James Leo Cahill is associate professor of cinema studies and French at the University of Toronto and general editor of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Cinema’s Copernican Vocation
1. Neozoological Dramas: Comparative Anatomy by Other Means
2. Metamorphoses: Crustaceans, the Coming of Sound, and Plasmatic
Anthropomorphism
3. Amour Flou: The Seahorse and the Blur of Sex
4. Substitutes, Vectors, and the Circulatory Systems of Modernity: Dr.
Normet’s Serum: Experimental Treatment of a Hemorrhage in a Dog and The
Vampire
5. Carnivorous Cinema: Freshwater Assassins and The Blood of the Beasts
Conclusion: Unfinished Revolutions, Untimely Nature
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index