{"product_id":"negative-life-steven-swarbrick-9780810147195","title":"Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNegative Life: The Cinema of Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e brings cinema studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis into novel configuration around the concept of negative life, a sundering of human and nonhuman relations. Engaging a philosophical and cinematic corpus that rejects the pastoralism of \"entanglement\" or \"enmeshment,\" Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay counter ecocritical pieties and cut a new path for theory. They examine films by Julian P?lsler, Kelly Reichardt, Lee Isaac Chung, Mahesh Mathai, Paul Schrader, and others that exemplify the existential contradictions currently intensifying amid the sixth mass extinction. Each case study testifies formally and thematically to negative life as a structural condition of thought and film. Together, the cases reveal the unlivable dimension of life and art, where form, desire, and nonbelonging tarry with the future-oriented promise of ecostudies--where all that lives connects.\u003ci\u003e Negative Life\u003c\/i\u003e militates against this promise, showing that faith in connection is a dead end. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Swarbrick, Jean-Thomas Tremblay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081014719X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810147195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Steven Swarbrick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45934292140287,"sku":"9780810147195","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b9049db7-a620-47ea-8507-29f46c44a67e.jpg?v=1721790818","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/negative-life-steven-swarbrick-9780810147195","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}