<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear list members,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm pleased to announce the recent publication of my new book: <b>Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image.</b><br><br>The introduction is available online via the SUNY Press website at: <a href="http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6290-regarding-life.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.sunypress.edu/p-629<wbr>0-regarding-life.aspx</a></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">The book is available on Amazon:<br><a href="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" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Regardi<wbr>ng-Life-Animals-Documentary-<wbr>Horizons/dp/1438462492/ref=sr_<wbr>1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480388259&sr=<wbr>8-1&keywords=belinda+smaill</a><br><br><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Regards</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Belinda</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">ABOUT THE BOOK<br>As indicated by the success of such films as <i>March of the Penguins</i> and <i>Food, Inc.</i>, the documentary has become the preeminent format for rendering animals and nature onscreen. In <i>Regarding Life</i>,
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 <i>Grizzly Man</i>; <i>Food, Inc.</i>; <i>Sweetgrass</i>; <i>Our Daily Bread</i>; and <i>Darwin</i><i>s Nightmare</i>,
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.</div><br><b>Table of Contents</b><br><span class="gmail-m_-8046376309257118295gmail-m_-4260775822970888664gmail-maintext"><br>1. Introduction<br><br>
2. Labor, Agriculture, and Long Take Cinema: Working on the Surface of the Earth<br><br>
3. Meat, Animals, and Paradigms of Embodiment: Documentary Identification and the Problem of Food<br><br>
4. Arctic Futures and Extinction: Loss, the Archive, and (Wildlife) Film<br><br>
5. Antarctica, Science, and Exploration: Encounters at the End of the World<br><br>
6. The Nonfiction of YouTube and “Naturecams”: Posthumanism and Reflections on Agency<br><br>
7. In Conclusion: Documentary, Science, and the Umwelt</span><br><br><br>-- <br><div class="gmail-m_-8046376309257118295gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Associate Professor Belinda Smaill<br>Head of Film and Screen Studies <br>Room B4. 34, Building B Level 4. <br></div>
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