Palmer, a veteran producer and film educator, looks past the headlines to uncover the pervasive and troubling trend toward sensationalism, extreme risk-taking, and even abuse in wildlife films.
Palmer, a veteran producer and film educator, looks past the headlines to uncover the pervasive and troubling trend toward sensationalism, extreme risk-taking, and even abuse in wildlife films.
If, as many argue, movies and television have become Western culture's premier storytelling media, so too have they become, for most members of society, the primary source of encounters with the natural world--particularly wild animals. The television fare offered nightly by nat…
"This critical history examines the work of zoological and science film pioneers Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon from 1924-1949, illuminating the significant contributions that their wildlife cinema made to philosophical and political thought"--
"This critical history examines the work of zoological and science film pioneers Jean Painlevé and Geneviève Hamon from 1924-1949, illuminating the significant contributions that their wildlife cinema made to philosophical and political thought"--