LEADER 04717nam 22005055 450 001 9911001468403321 005 20250506125922.0 010 $a3-031-84857-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-84857-5 035 $a(CKB)38753421100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-84857-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32077307 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32077307 035 $a(OCoLC)1524420994 035 $a(EXLCZ)9938753421100041 100 $a20250503d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAnimals and Greek Cinema $eAn Inquiry into the Nonhuman /$fby Nikitas Fessas 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (XVII, 378 p. 28 illus., 22 illus. in color.) 311 08$a3-031-84856-X 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $a?Few scholarly books so successfully use film theory in the service of activism. Fessas leverages a national corpus as a way to think the cinematic animal in unparalleled depth.? ? Rosalind Galt, Professor in Film Studies, Kings College London, UK ?A pioneering work in intercultural and transcultural cinematic conversations, Fessas?s study offers new principles of hermeneutics for understanding images of animality and what they indicate in relation to anthropology, psychology, politics and philosophy. The result can be compared to Laura Mulvey?s hugely impactful essay that reinvented the vocabulary of film analysis. An immense contribution in taking Greek film culture out of its provincialism.? ? Vrasidas Karalis, Associate Professor of Modern Greek, The University of Sydney, Australia ?I can't think of anything in Greek cinema studies that could compare with Animals and Greek Cinema. Fessas exhibits an astonishing knowledge of Greek filmography, weaving together, with incredible dexterity and strong academic rigour, theoretical, historical (and historiographic), philosophical, and industrial threads. A formidable scholarly achievement!? ? Yannis Tzioumakis, Reader in Film and Media Industries, University of Liverpool, UK 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 ?i?ek references him in two of his books. 606 $aMotion picture plays, European 606 $aAnimal welfare$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aEuropean Film and TV 606 $aAnimal Ethics 615 0$aMotion picture plays, European. 615 0$aAnimal welfare$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 14$aEuropean Film and TV. 615 24$aAnimal Ethics. 676 $a791.4094 700 $aFessas$b Nikitas$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01821358 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911001468403321 996 $aAnimals and Greek Cinema$94385234 997 $aUNINA