Derek Bousé PhD
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
• WILDLIFE FILMS
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), pictured at left, is a comprehensive study of a genre that has been overlooked by film historians and media scholars for too long. At Amazon.com you'll find the table of contents, the index, and several sample pages.
• "Film Theory and Bogus Theory"
is included in the recent collection MARKET KILLING: WHAT THE FREE MARKET DOES, AND WHAT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS CAN DO ABOUT IT, eds. Greg Philo and David Miller (Longman, 2000). The essay is a reflection on the dead ends into which contemporary film theory has wandered in recent decades, and that have rendered much of it methodologically ineffective, as well as socially and politically irrelevant.
Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Danny Schecter, John Corner, Hillary Rose, James Curran, Angela McRobbie, and others. For more information, click the "Market Killing" link at left.
• "Bring 'em Back....Alive?"
is a review the BBC's 1999 series "Walking with Dinosaurs," and a reflection on the implications of its largely speculative depictions of the behavior of long-extinct creatures. This article appeared in THE BEHAVIOR ANALYST TODAY (vol. 1, no. 4, 2000).
• A longer, more in-depth analysis of the subject can be found in my essay "Dances with Dinosaurs: Natural History Television in the Age of Computer Generated Images," which will appear later in 2002 in the collection entitled IMAGE ETHICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE, eds. Larry Gross, Jay Ruby, and John Stuart Katz (University of Minnesota Press). "Dances with Dinosaurs" is a reflection on the ethical dilemmas arising from the increasingly widespread use of CGI in natural history and wildlife films, as well as in nature still-photography. IMAGE ETHICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE is a follow-up to the highly praised collection IMAGE ETHICS (Oxford, 1988).
Other contributors to this edition (in addition to each of the editors) include Howard Becker, Joel Snyder, and Faye Ginsberg.
• "Restoring the Photographed Past"
appears in Spring 2002 edition of the history journal THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN (vol. 24, no. 2), which is published by the University of California Press. The essay is a study of problems arising from reliance on old photographs in efforts to restore or rebuild cultural treasures around the world -- from the Temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, to Michelangelo's ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, to the palaces of St. Petersburg in Russia, to the Native American ruins in the desert southwest of the US.
• "Passing the Torch -- To Whom? History, Technology, and Generational Transition in the Wildlife Film Industry" appears in the recently published book CAREERS IN WILDLIFE FILMMAKING , edited by Piers Warren (Wildeye, 2002).
Derek Bouse, WILDLIFE FILMS.
cover photo: scene from THE LEOPARD THAT CHANGED ITS SPOTS (Dieter Plage/Survival Anglia, 1978)
links:
"A Greek Tragedy: The Plight of the Cycladic Cats and Other Reflections on Life in Greece."
MARKET KILLING: WHAT THE FREE MARKET DOES, AND WHAT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS CAN DO ABOUT IT (see description at right)
Correspondence can be addressed care of: The University of Pennsylvania Press 4200 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4011, USA