Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Film Studies and the Nonhuman -- From Muybridge to the Green Wave -- Representation, Biopower, and Modernity: “Producing a History of Animals” -- Film and Animal Life -- Chapter 2 Labor, Agriculture, and Long Take Cinema: Working on the Surface of the Earth -- Work, Ethnography, and Animals in Documentary -- Men and Fish: Raw Herring -- Sheep and Men: Sweetgrass -- Children, Donkeys, Chickens, and Goats: Los Herederos -- Life as an Object of Power: The Problem of Humanism -- Animals Appear -- Chapter 3 Meat, Animals, and Paradigms of Embodiment: Documentary Identification and the Problem of Food -- Slaughterhouses, Film Histories, and the Senses -- The Problem of Food -- Transformation, Animals, and Meat: Edible and Inedible Food -- The Embodied Consumer -- Documentary Realism and Nonhuman Charisma: Living with Herds -- Intercorporeality, Embodiment, and Consumer Moralities -- Chapter 4 Arctic Futures and Extinction: Loss, the Archive, and (Wildlife) Film -- Life, Cinema, and the Problem of the Archive -- Species Loss and History: Stories about Disappearing Animals -- Arctic Histories, Animals, and Disappearing People: Nanook of the North -- Walking the Arctic: Being Caribou -- Polar Bears in an Arctic Tale: Companions in Decline -- Documentary and the Future -- Chapter 5 Antarctica, Science, and Exploration: Encounters at the End of the World -- 90° South and the Era of Heroic Exploration -- Frozen Planet and the Greening of the Blue Chip Format -- Encounters at the End of the World: The Essay Film and the Auteur -- Out of Nothingness and into History -- Chapter 6 The Nonfiction of YouTube and “Naturecams”: Posthumanism and Reflections on Agency -- The Videographic and Agency in a Time of Ecological Existentialism -- Grizzly Man as Epochal Text -- Infolding and Encounters with Cameras: “Marmot Licks GoPro” -- Africam, Alberti’s Window and Speculative Realism -- The Thrill of the Real: Embodied Vision -- Chapter 7 In Conclusion: Documentary, Science, and the Umwelt -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Filmography -- Index -- .
