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Book SynopsisWatching movies every night at home with his cats, film scholar and cat lover Daisuke Miyao noticed how frequently cats turned up on screen. In Cinema Is a Cat, Miyao uses the fascinating relationship between cats and cinema to offer a uniquely appealing introduction to film studies.
Trade ReviewMiyao skillfully combines cats and cinema not simply to open up his enjoyable account of some of the basic approaches to film studies to a broader audience, but also to explore the cat-like—to Miyao "phantomlike"—nature of the movie medium. Some say "the internet is made of cats," but in some ways, so is the cinema, a continuity which enables Miyao to engagingly elucidate the past, present, and future of film in a new mediated world. Cinema Is a Cat is one of the most original and creative introductory volumes to cinema studies. Accessible, clearly written, and with spot-on examples, it covers the core themes of the discipline in a smart and witty way. It will surely satisfy students of film—and cat lovers—both in the classroom and out.
