Framing the environmental humanities

Table of Contents: “…Ours -- Cognitivist film theory and the bioculturalist turn in eco-film studies / David Ingram -- Framing the alien, teaching District 9 / Roman Bartosch -- The nature study idea : framing nature for children in early twentieth century schools / Dorothy Kass -- Matter, meaning, and the classroom : a case-study / Isabel Hoving -- Postscript : framing the environmental humanities / Hannes Bergthaller and Peter Mortensen.…”
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Film, Lacan and the subject of religion : a psychoanalytic approach to religious film analysis by Nolan, Steve

Table of Contents: “…Part three. What can film theory offer liturgy? -- Introduction to Part three -- Cinematic identification : suture and narrative space -- Cinematic perspective and narrative space -- Jean-Pierre Oudart and Stephen Heath : suturing the subject in cinematic discourse -- Slavoj Žižek : when suture fails -- Critique of the subject sutured in cinematic discourse -- Suturing suture : joining the theory together -- Cinematic impression of reality as unconscious effect -- Symbolic reality, imaginary reality and the real of the subject's truth -- Imagos and the representational nature of the complex -- Anamnesis : the subject's participation in the impression of reality -- Mapping imaginary reality to cinema's impression of reality -- Cinematic discourse and Lacan's linguistic theory of dreams -- The (overdetermined) 'thing' : 'dumb reality' and (forbidden) objet petit a -- Lacan's linguistic theory of dreams -- The signifier as representative not significant -- The repeated real, the real as missed encounter -- Mapping unconscious desire to cinematic discourse -- Suturing identity with a cinematic other, suturing subjectivity -- Identification with represented desire : a 'genetic theory of the ego' -- Libidinal investment, narcissistic identification : 'dialectic of identification' -- The confusion of identity : jealousy, paranoiac knowledge and transitivism -- Procuring subjectivity : circulating the 'rim' and superimposing the lack -- Procuring subjectivity : the double operation of the 'rim' -- Representation and the fading of the subject -- Procuring subjectivity : the superimposition of the two lacks -- Modes of subject identification : the ideal-I and the ego-ideal -- Symmetrical identifications : imaginary projection and symbolic introjection -- Mapping suture to identification with a cinematic other -- Suturing religious identity in the sacramental narrative -- Identification with the priest as a liturgical representation -- Constructing the priest as a liturgical representation -- Priestly representation (i) : a fiction sustained by erotic attraction -- The mission (1986) -- Priestly representation (ii) : a fiction sustained by negation/disavowal -- Father John McNeill -- The worshipper's solipsistic identification with priestly representation -- Joining the narrative and participating in its 'reality' -- Signifying for : the reinscription of desire into the sacramental narrative -- The exorcist (1973) -- On the waterfront (1954) -- The fugitive (1947) -- The worshipper's participation as a subject of episcopal/ecclesial 'reality' -- By way of analysis -- Batman begins (Christopher Nolan) -- Bewitched (Nora Ephron) -- Charlie and the chocolate factory (Tim Burton) -- Conclusion : a third task -- moving beyond the 'so what!'.…”
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Nursing and allied healthcare professionals. Effective communication with patients

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The past's threshold : essays on photography by Kracauer, Siegfried, 1889-1966

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Special affects : cinema, animation and the translation of consumer culture by Jenkins, Eric S.

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Using film as a source by Barber, Sian

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Screening the male : exploring masculinities in Hollywood cinema

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Time Travel : the Popular Philosophy of Narrative. by Wittenberg, David

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Theory of film practice by Burch, Noël, 1932-

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The violent woman : femininity, narrative, and violence in contemporary American cinema by Neroni, Hilary, 1969-

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Cinema beyond film : media epistemology in the modern era

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The Edinburgh companion to poststructuralism by Dillet, Benoît

Table of Contents: “…Photography and poststructuralism : the indexical and iconic sign system / Sarah Edge -- Deleuze and the image of film theory / Conn Holohan -- The museum of now / Anna Cutler -- Institutions, semiotics and the politics of subjectivity / Michael A. …”
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Animal Life and the Moving Image

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Medium Foreword; Introduction: Animal Lives and Moving Images; PART 1: ANIMAL LIFE AND CINEMATIC SPECIFICITY; 1 Animal Photogénie: The Wild Side of French Film Theory's First Wave; 2 Cats and the Moving Image: Feline Cinematicity from Lumière to Maru; 3 Buñuel's Bull Meets YouTube's Lion: Surrealist and Digital Posthumanisms; 4 Muybridgean Motion/Materialist Film: Malcolm Le Grice's Berlin Horse; PART 2: CROSS-SPECIES IDENTIFICATIONS.…”
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Futurist cinema : studies on Italian avant-garde film

Table of Contents: “…Speed and Dynamism: Futurism and the Soviet Cinematographic Avant-garde / Paolo Bertetto -- 3. Futurism and Film Theories: Manifesto of Futurist Cinema and Theories in Italy in the 1910-1920s / Valentina Valente -- 4. …”
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Exhibiting patriotism : creating and contesting interpretations of American historic sites by Bergman, Teresa

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Spanish cinema against itself : cosmopolitanism, experimentation, and militancy by Marsh, Steven, 1963-

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Kracauer photographic archive

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Introduction to Japanese horror film by Balmain, Colette

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The new-brutality film : race and affect in contemporary Hollywood cinema by Gormley, Paul

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Classic Hollywood : lifestyles and film styles of American cinema, 1930-1960 by Pravadelli, Veronica, 1964-

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Cinema's bodily illusions : flying, floating, and hallucinating by Richmond, Scott C.

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Exile and Social Thought : Hungarian Intellectuals in Germany and Austria, 1919-1933. by Congdon, Lee

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Pixar and the aesthetic imagination : animation, storytelling, and digital culture by Herhuth, Eric, 1983-

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Steampunk film : a critical introduction by McAllister, Robbie

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Narrative absorption

Table of Contents: “…Kuijpers -- Spellbound in darkness: Narrative absorption discussed by film theory / Frank Kessler -- Antecedents of identification: Character, text, and audiences / Jonathan Cohen and Nurit Tal-Or -- Empirical studies on narrative absorption. …”
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Deleuze and Film : a Feminist Introduction. by Rizzo, Teresa

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Revolt, Affect, Collectivity : the Unstable Boundaries of Kristeva's Polis. by Chanter, Tina

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Being, time, bios : capitalism and ontology by Kordela, Aglaia Kiarina, 1963-

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Cinema and language loss : displacement, visuality and the filmic image by Mamula, Tijana, 1981-

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Deleuze, cinema and national identity : narrative time in national contexts by Martin-Jones, David

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Mothers, comrades, and outcasts in East German women's films by Creech, Jennifer L., 1973-

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Cinema's baroque flesh : film, phenomenology and the art of entanglement by Walton, Saige

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Bollywood and postmodernism : popular Indian cinema in the 21st Century by Wright, Neelam Sidhar

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Motion(less) pictures : the cinema of stasis by Remes, Justin

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New vocabularies in film semiotics : structuralism, post-structuralism, and beyond by Stam, Robert, 1941-

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Imaginary boundaries of justice : social justice across disciplines

Table of Contents: “…The Subject of Surveillance: Notes on Mann''s ''Heat'' and Kieślowski''s ''Three Colours: Red''; SEMIOTICS AND THE STUDY OF VISUAL CULTURE; PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FILM THEORY; PSYCHOANALYSIS VERSUS SURVEILLANCE; THREE COLOURS: RED; SURVEILLANCE, TRAGEDY, AND THE GAZE: MICHAEL MANN'S HEAT; CONCLUSION.…”
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The emergence of film culture : knowledge production, institution building, and the fate of the avant-garde in Europe, 1919-1945

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Marcel Proust : the Fictions of Life and of Art by Bersani, Leo

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Sovereign violence : ethics and South Korean cinema in the new millennium by Choe, Steve

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Spectacle of property : the house in American film by Rhodes, John David, 1969-

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