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Tasmanian tigers and polar bears: The documentary moving image and (species) loss

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dc.creatorSmaill, Belinda
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-26T11:53:48Z
dc.date.available2018-09-26T11:53:48Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractIn this essay I explore how two divergent examples of the nonfiction moving image can be understood in relation to the problem of representing species loss. The species that provide the platform for this consideration are the thylacine, better known as the Tasmanian tiger, and the polar bear. They represent the two contingencies of species loss: endangerment and extinction. My analysis is structured around moving images from the 1930s of the last known thylacine and the very different example of ARCTIC TALE (Adam Ravetch, Sarah Robertson, 2007), a ‘Disneyfied’ film that dramatises climate change and its impact on the polar bear. Species loss is frequently perceived in a humanist sense, reflecting how we ‘imagine ourselves’ or anthropocentric charactersations of non-human others. I offer a close analysis of the two films, examining the problem of representing extinction through a consideration of the play of absence and presence, vitality and extinguishment, that characterises both the ontology of cinema and narratives about species loss.en
dc.identifier.doi10.5117/NECSUS2015.1.SMAI
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15177
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.necsus-ejms.org/test/tasmanian-tigers-and-polar-bears-the-documentary-moving-image-and-species-loss/
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/3360
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherAmsterdam University Press
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0217
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectBeutelwolfde
dc.subjectTierede
dc.subjectDokumentarfilmde
dc.subjectUmweltde
dc.subjectAussterbende
dc.subjectEisbärde
dc.subjectThylacinusde
dc.subjectTierfilmde
dc.subjectTasmanian tigeren
dc.subjectanimalsen
dc.subjectdocumentaryen
dc.subjectenvironmenten
dc.subjectextinctionen
dc.subjectnonfictionen
dc.subjectpolar bearen
dc.subjectspecies lossen
dc.subjectthylacineen
dc.subjectwildlife filmen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleTasmanian tigers and polar bears: The documentary moving image and (species) lossen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSmaill, Belinda (2015): Tasmanian tigers and polar bears: The documentary moving image and (species) loss. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies 4 (1), 145–162. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2015.1.SMAI.
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T05:26:10
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.5117/NECSUS2015.1.SMAI
local.source.epage162
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage145
local.source.volume4

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