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

Tue Nov 29 16:08:03 GMT 2016




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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