Introduction

stepping into the play frame—cinema as mammalian communication

1-14

Janus's celluloid and digital faces

the existential cyborg—autopoiēsis in Christopher nolan's memento

15-55

Documentary intertext

Robert Gardner's Dead birds 1964

57-77

Cinema's historical incarnations

traveling the Möbius strip of biotime in Cloud atlas

79-140

Documentary intertext

John Marshall, The hunters 1957

141-179

Janus East and West

multicultural polyvocality—Trinh Minh-Ha's The fourth dimension and the digital film event

181-209

Documentary intertext

trance and dance in bali 1951

211-248

Janus's interspecies faces

biomorphic transformations in the ecology of mind in james Cameron's avatar

249-286

Documentary intertext

André Singer's and J. Stephen Lansing's The goddess and the computer 1988

287-308

Conclusion

toward a transdisciplinary critical theory of film

Amy E. Varela

309-330