Description
Product ID: | 9781517902162 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Zoological Surrealism |
Subtitle: | The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painleve |
Authors: | Author: James Leo Cahill |
Page Count: | 384 |
Subjects: | Film history, theory or criticism, Film theory & criticism, Individual film directors, film-makers, Individual film directors, film-makers |
Description: | ZoologicalSurrealism An archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlevé Before Jacques-Yves Cousteau, there was Jean Painlevé, a pioneering French scientific and nature filmmaker with a Surrealist’s eye. Creator of more than two hundred films, his studies of strange animal worlds doubled as critical reimaginations of humanity. With an unerring eye for the uncanny and unexpected, Painlevé and his assistant Geneviève Hamon captured oneiric octopuses, metamorphic crustaceans, erotic seahorses, mythic vampire bats, and insatiable predatory insects. |
Imprint Name: | University of Minnesota Press |
Publisher Name: | University of Minnesota Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-02-19 |