Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction by Swarbrick, Steven

Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity Negative Life: The Cinema of...
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Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction by Swarbrick, Steven

Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction

$105.70

Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction

$105.70
Author: Steven Swarbrick
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How films help us understand the inevitable death of Earth and humanity

Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction brings cinema studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis into novel configuration around the concept of negative life, a sundering of human and nonhuman relations. Engaging a philosophical and cinematic corpus that rejects the pastoralism of "entanglement" or "enmeshment," Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay counter ecocritical pieties and cut a new path for theory. They examine films by Julian P?lsler, Kelly Reichardt, Lee Isaac Chung, Mahesh Mathai, Paul Schrader, and others that exemplify the existential contradictions currently intensifying amid the sixth mass extinction. Each case study testifies formally and thematically to negative life as a structural condition of thought and film. Together, the cases reveal the unlivable dimension of life and art, where form, desire, and nonbelonging tarry with the future-oriented promise of ecostudies--where all that lives connects. Negative Life militates against this promise, showing that faith in connection is a dead end.

Author: Steven Swarbrick, Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 08/15/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9780810147195

About the Author
STEVEN SWARBRICK is an assistant professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. He is the author of The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological
Poetics from Spenser to Milton.

JEAN-THOMAS TREMBLAY is an assistant professor of environmental humanities at York University. He is the author of Breathing Aesthetics.


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