Animals and Greek Cinema: An Inquiry into the Nonhuman

Fessas, Nikitas

This book offers a non-anthropocentric account of a national cinema. Drawing on cutting-edge developments in Animal (film) studies, the book gathers a wide range of species and genres to discuss the Greek cinematic animal. This en-tails recalibrating the readers’/viewers’ gazes to include particular nonhumans, often displaced in the frame’s margins. While acknowledging the cost paid in animal suffering for Greek cinema to rise, the book features instances of animal-human bonding. Combining close readings with interviews with directors, human actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, producers, special effects artists, and animal wranglers, this book proposes a paradigm of human-animal praxis, arguing that revisiting nonhuman images can lead to renewed ethical relations, and to less speciesist cinemas, film industries, and societies..

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2025-05-03

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031848568

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-84857-5

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 434