[ecrea] New Book: Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image

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 
<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 
<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



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