General Information

Author/Creator

Cahill, James Leo, author.

Language

English.

Published

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Physical Description

395 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Contents/Summary

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"--

Subjects

Subject

Painlevé, Jean > Criticism and interpretation.

Wildlife films > History and criticism.

Wildlife cinematography.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

James Leo Cahill.

Content

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.

ISBN

9781517902155

9781517902162

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	791.4302/33092 CAH		Reference	-

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