Regarding Life

Regarding LifeContends that the narrative and aesthetic qualities of the documentary genre enable new understandings of animals and animal human relationships. As indicated by the success of such films as March of the Penguins and Food, Inc., the documentary has become the preeminent format for rendering animals and nature onscreen. In Regarding Life, Belinda Smaill brings together examples from a broad array of moving image contexts, including wildlife film and

highlighting architecture's capacity to serve as a catalyst for pluralism

revealing life in an ordinary English street in extraordinary times

which is certain to provoke controversy and a reconsideration of basic beliefs

partisan extremism

This US disaster zone has unveiled a network of social and environmental crises that demonstrate that prospects of social mobility have dwindled as environmental degradation and coastal erosion emerge as major threats not just to the quality of life but to the possibility of life in coastal communities across America and the world

With a focus on the settler societies of the United States and Australia

and the mechanisms by which they exert their antioxidant effects

Senator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in 1998 in London on the orders of a Spanish judge seeking his extradition for human rights crimes

cultural symbols

and often heated

The story centers on a mysterious woman

and finally to the display or distribution and sale of the finished product