Animals, Animacy, and the Moving Image
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Animals attract moving images. They always have. Animals flapped and galloped around the zootropes, bioscopes, phenakistoscopes, and other proto-cinematic toys of the mid-nineteenth century. They left ghostly traces on Jules Étienne-Marey’s chronophotographs and strode across the grids of Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies.
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Journal Article
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An excerpt from O'Brien's essay, which explores 'slaughter cinema' and the deaths of animals on screen.
Book Chapter
The use of certain key minerals enables the miniaturization of the computational worlds; they become mobile, ubiquitous, pervasive, and embedded into the natural environment. Parikka's book calls for a further materialization of media not only as media but as the geophysical elements that give us digital culture.
Book Chapter
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Historical studies of filmic dogs can help us to understand the changing perception of dogs in Western culture. Silent-era dog heroes show film’s first steps toward humanizing dogs, for better or worse, through stories of heroism, gracing them with complex intellectual faculties and courage.
Essay
This article offers a brief overview of revenge narratives involving nonhuman characters and the critical work they inspire.