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Author O'Brien, Sarah, 1982- author

Title Bits and pieces : screening animal life and death / Sarah O'Brien.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 187 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-183) and index.
Access Open access MiU
Summary Bits and Pieces: Screening Animal Life and Death gathers pivotal and more mundane moments, dispersed across a predominantly Western history of moving images, in which animals materialize in movies and TV shows, from iconic scenes of cattle slaughter in early Soviet montage to quandaries over hunting trophies in recent home-renovation reality TV series, to animals in Black horror films. Sarah O'Brien carefully views these fragments in dialogue with germinal texts at the intersection of animal studies, film and television studies, and cultural studies. She explores the capacity of moving images to unsettle the ways in which audiences have become habituated to viewing animal life and death on screens, and, more importantly, to understanding these images as more and less connected to the "production for consumption" of animals that is specific to modern industrialization. By looking back at films and TV series in which the places and practices of killing or keeping animals enter, occupy, or slip from the foreground, Bits and Pieces takes seriously the idea that cinema and television have the capacity not only to catch but to challenge and change viewers' regard for animals.
Note This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Description based on information from the publisher.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Animals in motion pictures.
Animals on television.
Hunting in motion pictures.
Human-animal relationships in motion pictures.
Animaux au cinéma.
Animaux à la télévision.
Chasse au cinéma.
Relations homme-animal au cinéma.
Animals in motion pictures
Animals on television
Human-animal relationships in motion pictures
Hunting in motion pictures
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Other Form: Print version: 0472076256 9780472076253 (OCoLC)1345513710
ISBN 9780472903573 (electronic bk.)
0472903578 (electronic bk.)
9780472076253 (hardcover)
0472076256 (hardcover)
9780472056255 (paperback)
0472056255 (paperback)
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.12042218 doi
AU@ 000074592171
AU@ 000074273762

 
    
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