USA: Wolf Connection and Inclusive, Safe Spaces for All

Wolf Connection is a wolf sanctuary located on the outskirts of a rural town, Acton, California, nestled in the Angeles National Forest. The sanctuary consists of 165 acres of stunning woodland and high desert mountains, including a year-round stream. It is located within a one-hour drive from Los Angeles. Wolf Connection runs a series of programmes based around issues of mental health, addressing social and economic inequality, and providing strategies for resilience and well-being. Wolf Connection identifies the following as its core business activities: Providing Animal Rescue and Wildlife Preservation; At-Risk Youth Education and Empowerment; Community Empowerment; and Environmental Awareness and Sustainability (see Fig. 1 for one of the wolves at Wolf Connection). This chapter examines these activities as they reflect the UN’s SDG#11.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cci_books/1000/thumbnail.jp

The Body as Is: The Copula of the (Cinematic) Body

This paper examines the body in cinema as a type of copula between the narrative of the film and the act of spectating. The cinematic body is seen as a type of hinge between what is represented (with its narrative force) and the processes of becoming a spectator of a film. Part of the analysis involves a comparison between the semiotic and philosophical ideas of CS Peirce with the works of Freud and Lacan. The paper examines how we might use a combination of these theories to compose a new theory of the cinematic body. Examples are drawn from the films of Malick, and Lynch, and the paper concludes with some of the implications of Bergson and Deleuze for these issues

The pharmakon of the apocalypse

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Visual Cultures and Critical Theory

This book considers the intersection between visual cultures and the most significant developments in critical theory over the last fifty years. This includes issues and concepts from psychoanalysis, philosophy, cultural theory, postmodernism, feminism, Queer theory, gender studies, and narrative theory. Visual Cultures and Critical Theory aims to provide an interplay between the image and recent developments in the humanities. Visual Cultures and Critical Theory will provide students with a guide for understanding ideas of critical theory through the visual

Fort/da and the coding of oppositional pleasures

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Theories of desire

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Sexuality, culture and art

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Cultural studies and critical theory

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Post-modernism and the post-colonial gaze

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New developments in film theory

New Developments in Film Theory investigates how film studies have been influenced by major theoretical advances in postmodernism and poststructuralism while revealing how the study of film has affected those critical movements. Covering topics such as love, terror, the body and passion, and theories such as feminism, psychoanalysis, philosophy and semiotics, the author provides new and alternative methods for analysing film." "This book challenges conventional assumptions about film studies, offers a new approach and provides an explication of the most significant theoretical ideas to emerge in the humanities in the last fifty years