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Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction
Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction 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 Pölsler, 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. Negative Life militates against this promise, showing that faith in connection is a dead end.
Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Steven Swarbrick
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William Westfall
2002
William Westfall, Founding Moment: Church, Society, and the Construction of Trinity College ( McGill-Queen's Press, 2002).
Stanley Tweyman
2002
Meditations on First Philosophy, Stanley Tweyman ed. (Taylor & Francis, 2002).
Markus Reisenleitner
2002
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Arthur Haberman
2002
The West and the World: Contacts, Conflicts, Connections Arthur Haberman, Sydney Eisen, & Adrian Shubert, eds. (Nelson Education Limited, 2002 ).
Martin Fichman
2002
Martin Fichman, Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture (Humanity Books, 2002).
Matthew Clark
2002
Matthew Clark, A Matter of Style: On Writing and Technique (Oxford University Press, 2002).
Amila Buturovic
2002
A. Buturovic, Stone Speaker: Medieval Tombs, Landscape, and Bosnian Identity in the Poetry of Mak Dizdar (Springer, 2002).
Gisela Argyle
2002
Gisela Argyle, Germany as Model and Monster (McGill-Queen's Press, 2002).
Patrick Taylor
2001
Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean Patrick Taylor ed. (Indiana University Press, 2001).
Markus Reisenleitner
2001
Identität, Kultur, Raum: kulturelle Praktiken und die Ausbildung von Imagined Communities in Nordamerika und Zentraleuropa Markus Reisenleitner, Cornelia Szabo-Knotik, Universität für ...
Leslie Sanders
2001
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Eric Lawee
2001
Eric Lawee, Isaac Arbabanel's Stance toward Tradition: Defense, Dissent, and Dialogue (SUNY Press, 2001).
Andreas Kitzmann
2001
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2001
Memory Work: The Theory and Practice of Memory by Andreas Kitzmann (Editor, Contributor), Conny Mithander (Editor), John Sundholm (Editor), Sundholm ...
Marlene Kadar
2001
Working in Women’s Archives: Researching Women’s Private Literature and Archival Documents Marlene Kadar, Helen M. Buss, eds. (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ...