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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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Gurbir Singh Jolly
2000
Published in 2000, Bolo! Bolo! includes original poetry, prose fiction and narrative essays from over fifty "second-generation" South Asian Canadians ...
Victor Shea
2000
Essays and Reviews: The 1860 Text and Its Reading Victor Shea & William Whitla eds. (University of Virginia Press, 2000).
Markus Reisenleitner
2000
Markus Reisenleitner, Frühe Neuzeit, Reformation und Gegenreformation: Darstellung, Forschungsüberblick, Quellen und Literatur (Studien, 2000).
John Dwyer
2000
John Alfred Dwyer, Business History: Canada in the Global Community (Captus Press, 2000).
David McNab
1999
Circles of Time: Aboriginal Land Rights and Resistance in Ontario David T. McNab ed. (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999).
Marlene Kadar
1999
Hungarian Studies Review: Women and Hungary: Reclaiming Images and Histories Agatha Schwartz & Marlene Kadar eds. (Hungarian Studies Association of Canada, ...
Michael brown
1999
Creating a Jewish Future Michael Booth & Bernard Lightman eds. (AltaMira Press , 1999).
David McNab
1998
Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Studies in Canadian Ethnohistory David T. MacNab ed. (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998).
John Dwyer
1998
John Dwyer, The Age of the Passions: An Interpretation of Adam Smith and Scottish Enlightenment Culture (Tuckwell Press, 1998).
Peter Cumming
1998
Peter Cumming, Horse Called Farmer Ron Benson Ron Benson, Lynn Bryan, Kim Newlove, Liz Stenson, Charolette Player, Beverley Kula, Linda Phillips, Iris ...
Bernard Lightman
1997
Victorian Science in Context Bernard Lightman, ed. (University of Chicago Press, 1997).
Matthew Clark
1997
Matthew Clark, Out of Line: Homeric Composition Beyond the Hexameter (Rowman & Littlefiel, 1997).
Carl S. Ehrlich
1996
Carl S. Ehrlich, The Philistines in Transition: A History from Ca. 1000-730 B.C.E. (BRILL, 1996).
Carole Carpenter
1996
Carole Henderson Carpenter & Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, In Our Own Image: The Child, Canadian Culture and Our Future (Robarts ...
Michael brown
1996
The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945 Michael Brown ed. (Wayne State University Press, 1996).
Jody Berland
1996
Theory Rules: Art as Theory, Theory and Art Jody Berland, Will Straw & David Tomas eds. (University of Toronto Press, 1996).