Zoological Surrealism (inbunden)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
384
Utgivningsdatum
2019-02-19
Utmärkelser
Short-listed for Zoological Surrealism 2020
Förlag
University of Minnesota Press
Illustrationer
72
Dimensioner
216 x 137 x 25 mm
Vikt
840 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781517902162

Zoological Surrealism

The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlev

Häftad,  Engelska, 2019-02-19
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An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlev Before Jacques-Yves Cousteau, there was Jean Painlev, a pioneering French scientific and nature filmmaker with a Surrealists eye. Creator of more than two hundred films, his studies of strange animal worlds doubled as critical reimaginations of humanity. With an unerring eye for the uncanny and unexpected, Painlev and his assistant Genevive Hamon captured oneiric octopuses, metamorphic crustaceans, erotic seahorses, mythic vampire bats, and insatiable predatory insects. Zoological Surrealism draws from Painlevs early oeuvre to rethink the entangled histories of cinema, Surrealism, and scientific research in interwar France. Delving deeply into Painlevs archive, James Leo Cahill develops an account of cinemas Copernican vocationhow it was used to forge new scientific discoveries while also displacing and critiquing anthropocentric viewpoints. From Painlevs engagements with Sergei Eisenstein, Georges Franju, and competing Surrealists to the historiographical dimensions of Jean Vigos concept of social cinema, Zoological Surrealism taps never-before-examined sources to offer a completely original perspective on a cutting-edge filmmaker. The first extensive English-language study of Painlevs early films and their contexts, it adds important new insight to our understanding of film while also contributing to contemporary investigations of the increasingly surreal landscapes of climate change and ecological emergency.
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"Reading Jean Painlevs archive, James Leo Cahill excavates an urgent nonhuman ethics made possible through film. Each chapter of this lively, meticulously researched, and beautifully written book reveals a complex vision of animals-for-themselves and animals as figures for a fraught political culture. The cinematic nature of Painlevs world, as theorized by Cahill, unsettles any presumed separateness of human- and animal-being, even as it offers a vision of animal existence that is beyond human existence altogether."Jennifer Fay, author of Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene "A remarkable study of Jean Painlevs cinematic attention to the marvels of animal life, James Leo Cahills study elegantly resolves the contradictions between intellectual biography and non-anthropocentric modes of inquiry. At once a focused critical biography and a wide-ranging study of organic systems thinking, Zoological Surrealism is alive with the intellectual ferment of the French 1930s. It is an essential text for any reader invested in the development of systems thinking, as well as in the history of experimental film, art, science, and thought."Jonathan P. Eburne, author of Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas

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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.

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Contents Introduction: Cinemas 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. Normets 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