Anat Pick

Queen Mary, University of London, Film Studies, Faculty Member

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I work across image and text, addressing questions of humanity and animality in film and literature. Publications include Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film (Columbia University Press, 2011), Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human (Berghahn, 2013), and articles on animal ethics, and more-than-human cinema.
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Creaturely Poetics: Animality and Vulnerability in Literature and Film (Columbia University Press, 2011)

Creaturely Poetics argues for a radical rethinking of humans’ relationship to animals, based on o... more

Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human, Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway, eds. (Berghahn, 2013)

"SCREENING NATURE integrates historical, theoretical and cultural approaches to cinema for the st... more "SCREENING NATURE integrates historical, theoretical and cultural approaches to cinema for the study of filmic representations of the natural environment and animals. The collection comprises key readings that highlight the centrality of first nature to the cinematic medium, and to the language and institution of film. It offers a fresh and timely intervention into contemporary film theory through a focus on the nonhuman environment as a principal register in many filmic texts. The volume addresses aspects of nature, such as landscape, weather, animals, and forms of human habitation (and conquest) of space from Hollywood to non-Western cinemas, experimental and art-house, and the recent large-scale wildlife documentaries popular on both the big and the small screen. A number of the essays moreover consider the material relationship of the filmmaker to first nature through the practice and discourses surrounding filmmaking itself.

CONTRIBUTORS: Kay Armatage, Chia-Ju Chang, Steven Eastwood, Elana Gomel, May Ingawanij, David Ingram, Elizabeth Leane, Sophie Mayer, Patrick Murphy, Guinevere Narraway, Steve Nicol, Silke Panse,
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Popular Media and Animals

Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to crimina... more Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. 10.1057/9780230306240 -Popular Media and Animals, Claire Molloy Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com -licensed to McGill University -PalgraveConnect -2013-01-05 10.1057/9780230306240 -Popular Media and Animals, Claire Molloy Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com -licensed to McGill University -PalgraveConnect -2013-01-05 xi Series Preface This is a new book series for a new field of inquiry: Animal Ethics. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the ethics of our treatment of animals. Philosophers have led the way, and now a range of other scholars have followed, from historians to social scientists. From being a marginal issue, animals have become an emerging issue in ethics and in multidisciplinary inquiry. In addition, a rethink of the status of animals has been fuelled by a range of scientific investigations which have revealed the complexity of animal sentiency, cognition, and awareness. The ethical implications of this new knowledge have yet to be properly evaluated, but it is becoming clear that the old view that animals are mere things, tools, machines, or commodities cannot be sustained ethically. But it is not only philosophy and science that are putting animals on the agenda. Increasingly, in Europe and the United States, animals are becoming a political issue as political parties vie for the 'green' and 'animal' vote. In turn, political scientists are beginning to look again at the history of political thought in relation to animals, and historians are beginning to revisit the political history of animal protection. As animals have grown as an issue of importance, so have there been more collaborative academic ventures leading to conference volumes, special journal issues, indeed new academic animal journals as well. Moreover, we have witnessed the growth of academic courses, as well as university posts, in Animal Ethics, Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, Animal Law, Animals and Philosophy, Human-Animal Studies, Critical Animal Studies, Animals and Society, Animals in Literature, Animals and Religion -tangible signs that a new academic discipline is emerging. 'Animal Ethics' is the new term for the academic exploration of the moral status of the non-human -an exploration that explicitly involves a focus on what we owe animals morally, and which also helps us to understand the influences -social, legal, cultural, religious, and political -that legitimate animal abuse. This series explores the challenges that Animal Ethics poses, both conceptually and practically, to traditional understandings of human-animal relations. The series is needed for three reasons: (i) to provide the texts that will service the new university courses on animals; (ii) to support the 10.1057/9780230306240 -Popular Media and Animals, Claire Molloy Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com -licensed to McGill University -PalgraveConnect -2013-01-05 xii Series Preface increasing number of students studying and academics researching in animal-related fields; and (iii) because there is currently no book series that is a focus for multidisciplinary research in the field. Specifically, the series will provide a range of key introductory and advanced texts that map out • ethical positions on animals; publish pioneering work written by new, as well as accomplished, • scholars; and produce texts from a variety of disciplines that are multidisciplinary • in character or have multidisciplinary relevance. The new Palgrave Macmillan Series on Animal Ethics is the result of a unique partnership between Palgrave Macmillan and the Ferrater Mora Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. The series is an integral part of the mission of the Centre to put animals on the intellectual agenda by facilitating academic research and publication. The series is also a natural complement to one of the Centre's other major projects, the Journal of Animal Ethics. The Centre is an independent think-tank for the advancement of progressive thought about animals, and is the first centre of its kind in the world. It aims to demonstrate rigorous intellectual enquiry and the highest standards of scholarship. It strives to be a world-class centre of academic excellence in its field. We invite academics to visit www.oxfordanimalethics.com, the Centre's website, and to contact us with new book proposals for the series.

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