Screening the Nonhuman

Representations of Animal Others in the Media

AvAmber E. George,J.L. Schatz

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as actors, as pets, and in nature. The contributors propose that altering the representations of animals can change the way humans relate to non/humans. Our hope is for humans to generate more ethical relationships with non/humans, ultimately mediating reality both in terms of fiction and non-fiction. To achieve this end, film, television, advertisements, and social media are analyzed through an intersectional lens. But the book doesn’t stop here. Each author creates counter-representational strategies that promise to unweave the assumptions that have led to the mistreatment of humans and non/humans alike.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-06
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Animal Studies and Theory
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498513760

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Mer om författaren

Amber E. George is program coordinator for the Intergroup Dialogue Project at Cornell University.J.L. Schatz is instructor at Binghamton University.

Recensioner i media

Our fellow animals have had rough treatment on film—like many of our fellow humans. But they cannot organize and protest like we can. The book you have before you gives us tools and evidence to make the case on their behalf. Freedom from harm is a basic animal right, and that applies to issues of representation as well as physical treatment. Their cause must be our cause.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Critical Media Studies and Critical Animal Studies at the Crossroads, Amber George and J.L. SchatzPart IChapter One: The Brown Wizard’s Unexpected Politics: Speciesist Fiction and the Ethics of The Hobbit, J.L. SchatzChapter Two: The Passing Faerie and the Transforming Raven: Animalized Compulsory Re-covery, Endurance, and Dis/ability in Maleficent, Jennifer PolishChapter Three: Jabbering Jaws: Reimagining Representations of Sharks Post-Jaws, Matthew LerbergChapter Four: Horseplay: Beastly Cinematic Performances in Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, Stella HockenhullChapter Five: Would Bugs Bunny Have Diabetes?: The Realistic Consequences of Cartoons for Non/Human Animals, Amber E. GeorgePart IIChapter Six: I Am Legend (2007), U.S. Imperialism, and the Liminal Animality of “The Last Man, Carter SolesChapter Seven: Ape Anxiety: Intelligence, Human Supremacy, and Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Sean ParsonChapter Eight: The Vicious Cycle of Disnification and Audience De