This chapter covers over a century of Greek and Greek-directed cinema by focusing on the persistent, neglected presence of nonhuman animals, either foregrounded or in the margins of the frame. As it happens with the rest of the chapters, close textual analysis is interspersed with information coming from interviews with celebrated directors, screenwriters, actors, and cinematographers (alongside producers, special effects artists, and animal wranglers elsewhere in the book). The corpus of disparate films is ‘irreverently’ reorganised, sometimes in terms of genre, but also according to species, including sections about dogs of various breeds, cats, birds, donkeys, horses, fish, and primates. The material is broken down and reassembled as a revisionist, radically antispeciesist account under the umbrella of Greek, or Greek-directed cinema.

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Towards a Nonhuman Account of Greek Cinema

  • Nikitas Fessas

摘要

This chapter covers over a century of Greek and Greek-directed cinema by focusing on the persistent, neglected presence of nonhuman animals, either foregrounded or in the margins of the frame. As it happens with the rest of the chapters, close textual analysis is interspersed with information coming from interviews with celebrated directors, screenwriters, actors, and cinematographers (alongside producers, special effects artists, and animal wranglers elsewhere in the book). The corpus of disparate films is ‘irreverently’ reorganised, sometimes in terms of genre, but also according to species, including sections about dogs of various breeds, cats, birds, donkeys, horses, fish, and primates. The material is broken down and reassembled as a revisionist, radically antispeciesist account under the umbrella of Greek, or Greek-directed cinema.