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Synopsis

In an era defined by environmental crisis, artificial intelligence, and multispecies interdependence, what happens if we continue to ignore crucial nonhuman relationships that weigh so significantly on the future of the planet? Nonhuman Cinema explores how film can destabilize anthropocentrism and help us see and think beyond the human. In doing so, it defines what a nonhuman cinema might look like―its parameters, major characteristics, goals, and significance.

Bringing together leading scholars and filmmakers, this book introduces a new framework for understanding film as a site of entanglement between humans, animals, aliens, ecosystems, cyborgs, machines, galaxies and the natural world. It examines how films can decentre the human gaze, disrupt anthropocentric narratives, undermine ontological categories, and immerse viewers in unfamiliar territories, temporalities and sensoria. Importantly, it also asks what happens when cinema itself becomes nonhuman: when the camera is no longer viewed as an instrument of human vision but as a participant in the world’s material and sensory life.

Written and edited by individuals at the forefront of film and media theory, Nonhuman Cinema offers an original and vital intervention in contemporary thought. It will appeal to readers interested in film studies, media, philosophy, new materialism, environmental humanities, feminism, queer theory, art history, and to anyone curious about how cinema can help us rethink what ‘human’ really means in the twenty-first century.

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À propos des auteurs

Barbara Creed is the Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of seven books including The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (1993, 2024), Return of the Monstrous-Feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema (2022 ) and Stray: Human–Animal Ethics in the Anthropocene (2017). Her writings have been translated into eleven languages.



Cristóbal Escobar is a Lecturer in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne and a Film Programmer at the Santiago International Documentary Film Festival. He is the author of The Intensive-Image in Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy (2023), editor of Cine Cartográfico (2017), and is currently writing a monograph on Mestizaje and Cinema.

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