[csaa-forum] Fwd: New Book: Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image

TANIA LEWIS tania.lewis at rmit.edu.au
Tue Nov 29 18:18:33 ACST 2016


Dear list members,

I'm pleased to announce the recent publication of my new book: *Regarding
Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image.*

The introduction is available online via the SUNY Press website at:
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6290-regarding-life.aspx

​The book is available on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Regarding-Life-Animals-Documentary-
Horizons/dp/1438462492/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480388259&sr=
8-1&keywords=belinda+smaill

Regards
Belinda


ABOUT THE BOOK
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.​

*Table of Contents*

1. Introduction

2. Labor, Agriculture, and Long Take Cinema: Working on the Surface of the
Earth

3. Meat, Animals, and Paradigms of Embodiment: Documentary Identification
and the Problem of Food

4. Arctic Futures and Extinction: Loss, the Archive, and (Wildlife) Film

5. Antarctica, Science, and Exploration: Encounters at the End of the World

6. The Nonfiction of YouTube and “Naturecams”: Posthumanism and Reflections
on Agency

7. In Conclusion: Documentary, Science, and the Umwelt


-- 
Associate Professor Belinda Smaill
Head of Film and Screen Studies
Room B4. 34, Building B Level 4.
http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/belinda-smaill/

School of Media, Film and Journalism
Monash University
Sir John Monash Drive
Caulfield
VIC 3145, Australia
Ph. 61 3 9905 2442


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