{"product_id":"9781438462509","title":"Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image","description":"\u003ci\u003eContends that the narrative and aesthetic qualities of the documentary genre enable new understandings of animals and animal\/human relationships.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs indicated by the success of such films as \u003ci\u003eMarch of the Penguins\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFood, Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e, the documentary has become the preeminent format for rendering animals and nature onscreen. In \u003ci\u003eRegarding Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Belinda Smaill brings together examples from a broad array of moving image contexts, including wildlife film and television, advocacy documentary, avant-garde nonfiction, and new media to identify a new documentary terrain in which the representation of animals in the wild and in industrial settings is becoming markedly more complex and increasingly more involved with pivotal ecological debates over species loss, food production, and science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile attending to some of the most discussed documentaries of the last two decades, including \u003ci\u003eGrizzly Man\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFood, Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSweetgrass\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOur Daily Bread\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDarwin’s Nightmare\u003c\/i\u003e, the book also draws on lesser-known film examples, and is one of the first to bring film studies understandings to new media such as YouTube. The result is a study that melds film studies and animal studies to explore how documentary films render both humans and animals, and to what political ends.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142369231088,"sku":"9781438462509","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781438462509_p0.jpg?v=1763755986","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781438462509","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}