{"product_id":"zoological-surrealism-james-leo-cahill-9781517902162","title":"Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn archive-based, in-depth analysis of the surreal nature and science movies of the pioneering French filmmaker Jean Painlev \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Jacques-Yves Cousteau, there was Jean Painlev , 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, Painlev  and his assistant Genevi ve Hamon captured oneiric octopuses, metamorphic crustaceans, erotic seahorses, mythic vampire bats, and insatiable predatory insects. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Zoological Surrealism draws from Painlev 's early oeuvre to rethink the entangled histories of cinema, Surrealism, and scientific research in interwar France. Delving deeply into Painlev 's archive, James Leo Cahill develops an account of \"cinema's Copernican vocation\"--how it was used to forge new scientific discoveries while also displacing and critiquing anthropocentric viewpoints. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From Painlev 's engagements with Sergei Eisenstein, Georges Franju, and competing Surrealists to the historiographical dimensions of Jean Vigo's concept of social cinema, Zoological Surrealism taps never-before-examined sources to offer a completely original perspective on a cutting-edge filmmaker. The first extensive English-language study of Painlev 's early films and their contexts, it adds important new insight to our understanding of film while also contributing to contemporary investigations of the increasingly surreal landscapes of climate change and ecological emergency.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Leo Cahill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517902169\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517902162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.40w x 1.00d","brand":"James Leo Cahill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43940065280255,"sku":"9781517902162","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4c3083a4-d9e7-4d5c-8ff3-8e9f33e2e8bf.jpg?v=1681445084","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/zoological-surrealism-james-leo-cahill-9781517902162","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}