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""Freely traveling between academic and rural knowledge, Dara Waldron explores the fluid divide between the animal and human world. A Sheepdog Named Oscar also makes you realize how important landscape and weather are to our thinking. His moving book in essence is about responsibility and what it means for humans 'to take care'."" —Peter Delpeut ""What wins one's heart is not just the almost indecently elegant writing, writing that really does justify the descriptor ""Proustian,"" but Dara Waldron is right on time with this deeply personal memoir that explores extra-human sentience as part of a relationship cemented through grief, growth, and regeneration."" —Aryan Kaganof

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Dara Waldron is a film scholar and author of two monographs and multiple articles in international film journals and magazines. His 2018 book New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory is a standard reference for documentary filmmaking courses across the globe. He teaches Critical and Contextual studies at Limerick School of Art and Design and has been a visiting Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki, LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, and the Ethnography Lab at University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2023 he published a study of sheepherding traditions that formed the background forA Sheepdog Named Oscar, his first memoir. Born in Manchester and raised in Ireland, he currently lives on the border between County Limerick and Tipperary in Ireland's Midwest, close to the gates of well-known Glenstal Abbey and its school, which feature prominently in his memoir.

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