Phantosomeikón
The Ghostly Corporealities of Urban Strays in Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter’s Space Dogs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7168499 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Borbála László (0000-0002-7718-6419, Non-independent Department of British Studies, Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Debrecen https://dx.doi.org/211217 Debrecen Hungary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Society and Animals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685306-bja10271 |
| OpenAlex | W4417445853 |
| Language | PT |
This article offers a more hopeful approach to thinking about film animals than the theories stressing the erasure of actual animals in cinema. Relying on corrective arguments to the spectral economy of the (post)modern animal, it uses Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter’s Space Dogs (2019) as an example to argue that recent documentaries not only foreground the concrete, corporeal, and creaturely experiences of urban strays, but also emphasize the mysteriousness that, from a human perspective, often accompanies other animals’ lives. Rather than spectral animals, the documentary summons phantosomeikón: creatures whose phenomenal worlds elude human understanding, thereby haunting the anthropocentric gaze with the presence of wholly other ways of being
Anthropocentrism · Creatures · Gaze · Sentience · Summons · The Symbolic · Cinema and Media Studies · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Highly cited | No |
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