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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
1988
William Westfall, Two Worlds: The Protestant Culture of Nineteenth-Century (McGill-Queen's Press 1988).
William Westfall
1988
Patterns of the Past: Interpreting Ontario's History: A Collection of Historical Articles Published on the Occasion of the Centenary of ...
John Dwyer
1987
John Alfred Dwyer, Virtuous Discourse: Sensibility and Community in Late Eighteenth-Century Scotland (J. Donald, 1987).
David Trotman
1986
David Trotman, Crime in Trinidad: Conflict and Control in a Plantation Society (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1986).
William Westfall
1985
Religion/culture: Comparative Canadian Studies William Westfall ed. (Association for Canadian Studies, 1985).
Peter Cumming
1983
Peter Cumming, Ti-Jean 1983
Peter Cumming
1983
Peter Cumming, Snowdreams: A Play for High School Students (Playwrights Union of Canada, 1981).
John Dwyer
1982
New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland John Dwyer, Roger A. Mason & Alexander Murdoch eds. (J. ...
Bernard Lightman
ISIS Bernard Lightman ed. University of Chicago Press.
Marlene Kadar
Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers de la Femme Marlene Kadar, ed. (Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Winter/Spring 2008).
Jody Berland
Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies Jody Berland ed. York University.