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This dissertation documents the influence of vitalist and life--philosophical ideas of life, movement, and temporality on early film theory and practice, and de

This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosoph

Looking at film through its communication properties rather than its social or political implications, this work draws on the tenets of James J. Gibson's ecolog

From the proto-cinematic sequencing of animal motion in the nineteenth century to the ubiquity of animal videos online, the histories of animal life and the mov

In the earliest years of cinema, travelogues were a staple of variety film programs in commercial motion picture theaters. These short films, also known as "sce