Animals and Greek Cinema: An Inquiry into the Nonhuman

ISBN-13: 9783031848568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 280 str.

Nikitas Fessas

Opis

This book narrates a hidden history of animals in Greek films. From bucolic melodramas to comedies, documentaries, ‘Weird’ cinema, and animation, animals have been a persistent, often indelible, though scholarly neglected, presence in Greek cinema since its inception. Non-anthropocentric accounts of national cinemas en-tail recalibrating our gaze to include creatures that walked the landscape and studio sets, often displaced in the frame’s margins. While acknowledging the cost paid in animal suffering for Greek cinema to rise, the researcher remains vigilant for instances of animal-human bonding. Combining close readings with interviews with directors, human actors, screenwriters, cinematographers, and animal wranglers, this book proposes a paradigm of human-animal praxis. Revisiting nonhuman images can lead to renewed ethical relations, and to less speciesist cinemas, film industries, and societies.