☰

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Animals in Film (Locations)

Not Available / Digital Item

Animals in Film (Locations)

From Salvador DalÃ to Walt Disney, animals have been a constant yet little-considered presence in film. Indeed, it may come as a surprise to learn that animals were a central inspiration to the development of moving pictures themselves.

In Animals in Film, Jonathan Burt points out that the mobility of animals presented technical and conceptual challenges to early film-makers, the solutions of which were an important factor in advancing photographic technology, accelerating the speed of both film and camera. The early filming of animals also marked one of the most significant and far-reaching changes in the history of animal representation, and has largely determined the way animals have been visualized in the twentieth century.

Burt looks at the extraordinary relationship between animals, cinema and photography (including the pioneering work of Eadweard Muybridge and Jules-Etienne Marey) and the technological developments and challenges posed by the animal as a specific kind of moving object. Animals in Film is a shrewd account of the politics of animals in cinema, of how movies and video have developed as weapons for animal rights activists, and of the roles that animals have played in film, from the avant-garde to Hollywood.

Country	USA
Author	Jonathan Burt
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781861895721
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Reaktion Books
Manufacturer	Reaktion Books
NumberOfPages	232
PublicationDate	2012-01-18
Publisher	Reaktion Books
ReleaseDate	2012-01-18
Studio	Reaktion Books

You might also like...

Eating Animals

Animal (FOCI)

Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies

Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies