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Re-Animating The Thylacine: Narratives Of Extinction In Tasmanian Cinema, Guinevere Narraway, Hannah Stark
Re-Animating The Thylacine: Narratives Of Extinction In Tasmanian Cinema, Guinevere Narraway, Hannah Stark
Animal Studies Journal
The thylacine looms large in Tasmanian culture. The animal’s image is everywhere, present on everything from beer labels to licence plates. The documentary footage of the last thylacine in Hobart Zoo has come to exemplify, among other things, the tragedy of species loss and humanity’s violence against the nonhuman. This footage features at the beginning of both The Hunter and Dying Breed – two of the very small number of films that constitute a notional Tasmanian cinema. In contrast to the meanings suggested by the documentary images of the last thylacine however, the fictional Tasmanian tiger in these films becomes …
Vulnerability In The City: Reading Healing Narratives In East Asian Animal Films, Fiona Y.W. Law
Vulnerability In The City: Reading Healing Narratives In East Asian Animal Films, Fiona Y.W. Law
Animal Studies Journal
Narratives of mourning and healing have become a popular discourse in films about animalhuman relationships set in the contemporary East Asian urban milieu. From the mainstream to the arthouse, from micro films to personal documentaries, images of the dying pet have triggered poignant revelations about human existence. While most of these films focus on the process of how the human protagonists come to the enlightening moment of self-understanding through the grieving experience, the deaths of their animal companions are often the imperative origins of such self-making. Interestingly, the cause of these animals’ loss is either evaded by or mirrored through …