Animals and Greek Cinema
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-84856-8 (ISBN)
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..
Nikitas Fessas owns a no-kill farm in Crete. He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences: Communication Sciences (focused on Film). He has worked as a film reviewer and has co-edited the volume Greek Film Noir (2022). Slavoj Zizek references him in two of his books.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Towards a nonhuman account of Greek cinema.- Chapter 3: One or several wolf men, little foxes and young Aphrodites.- Chapter 4: Furry-tales: narratives of therianthropy and queerness; the cases of Panos Koutras and Elina Psykou.- Chapter 5: Birds of a feather.- Chapter 6: Dying like dogs.- Chapter 7: All creatures great and small: Dimos Avdeliodis's theistic posthumanism.- Chapter 8 : Shooting animality: Menelaos Karamaghiolis's cinema of transspecies poetics.- PART II: The Animal People.- Chapter 9 : Small lives.- Chapter 10: Dressing animals; or: the calculated banality of nonhuman film logistics.- Chapter 11: Olga Malea's malleable animals.- Chapter 12: Getting their goats.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.05.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XVII, 434 p. 28 illus., 22 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
| Schlagworte | Animal ethics • Animal film studies • animals and greek cinema • Animal welfare activism • Animal wrangling • Greek cinema • Human- animal praxis • Non-anthropocentrism • non human • Post-humanism • World cinemas |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-84856-X / 303184856X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-84856-8 / 9783031848568 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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