Nikitas Fessas: Animals and Greek Cinema, Gebunden
Animals and Greek Cinema
- An Inquiry into the Nonhuman
- Publisher:
- Springer, 05/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9783031848568
- Item number:
- 12285924
- Volume:
- 452 Pages
- Weight:
- 691 g
- Format:
- 216 x 153 mm
- Thickness:
- 29 mm
- Release date:
- 3.5.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
This book offers a non-anthropocentric account of a national cinema. Drawing on cutting-edge developments in Animal (film) studies, the book gathers a wide range of species and genres to discuss the Greek cinematic animal. This en-tails recalibrating the readers'/viewers' gazes to include particular nonhumans, often displaced in the frame's margins. While acknowledging the cost paid in animal suffering for Greek cinema to rise, the book features instances of animal-human bonding. Combining close readings with interviews with directors, human actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, special effects artists, and animal wranglers, this book proposes a paradigm of human-animal praxis, arguing that revisiting nonhuman images can lead to renewed ethical relations, and to less speciesist cinemas, film industries, and societies..