Animals and Greek Cinema: An Inquiry into the Nonhuman

By: Nikitas Fessas

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Synopsis: This book offers a non-anthropocentric account of a national cinema. Drawing on cutting-edge developments in Animal (film) studies, the book gathers a wide range of species and genres to discuss the Greek cinematic animal. This en-tails recalibrating the readers&’/viewers&’ gazes to include particular nonhumans, often displaced in the frame&’s margins. While acknowledging the cost paid in animal suffering for Greek cinema to rise, the book features instances of animal-human bonding. Combining close readings with interviews with directors, human actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, special effects artists, and animal wranglers, this book proposes a paradigm of human-animal praxis, arguing that revisiting nonhuman images can lead to renewed ethical relations, and to less speciesist cinemas, film industries, and societies.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031848575
Related ISBNs:: 9783031848568
Publisher:: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date of Addition:: 05/23/25
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Animals, Art and Architecture, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.