TY - JOUR
AU - Czatkowska, Emilia
AB - Laura McMahon, Animal Worlds: Film, Philosophy and Time. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019, 220 pp. . EMILIA CZATKOWSKA . In her second monograph, Laura McMahon takes readers on a fascinating . exploration of animal worlds and their cinematic manifestations. As an . alternative to Bazin-centric scholarship on animals in film – which we . can see in the works of Anat Pick or Jennifer Fay – McMahon engages with another French theorist, Gilles Deleuze (p. 2). Readers familiar with the broader field of animal studies will undoubtedly recognize the Deleuzo-Guattarian concept of ‘becoming-animal’; nevertheless, the contribution of McMahon’s Animal Worlds is that it moves beyond this . single, all too frequently discussed notion. Instead McMahon teases out . connections and synthesizes Deleuze’s other works on animals and on . cinema, which, as she explains in the introduction, he developed largely . in separation. Through close analysis of her case studies, among them titles such as Bestiaire (Denis Coˆte´, 2012) and The Turin Horse (Be´la Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky, 2011), McMahon demonstrates possibilities and limitations of the Deleuzian philosophy in relation to films that feature animals and the politics of animal life. . Before I discuss the book in greater 
TI - Laura McMahon, Animal Worlds: Film, Philosophy and Time
JO - Screen
DO - 10.1093/screen/hjac019
DA - 2022-07-06
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/laura-mcmahon-animal-worlds-film-philosophy-and-time-wDM4t0RRvY
SP - 258
EP - 261
VL - 63
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -