Gay Hawkins is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. She is a leading researcher in the fields of environmental humanities, STS and the politics of materials. Ben Dibley is a visiting fellow at Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Crafting televisual animalsPart 1: Capturing1 Cages and cameras: Screen animals before television2 Captivating viewers: Early natural history television on the ABCPart 2: Provoking3 Developing the natural history genre: How animals and the media apparatus interact4 Making-of documentaries: Turning working animals into natural history animalsPart 3: Inhabiting5 The Nature of Australia series: Nationing nature6 After nature, after animals: Inhabiting a damaged planetConclusion: Political animalsReferencesIndex

Gay Hawkins is an Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. She is a leading researcher in the fields of environmental humanities, STS and the politics of materials. Ben Dibley is a visiting fellow at Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Crafting televisual animalsPart 1: Capturing1 Cages and cameras: Screen animals before television2 Captivating viewers: Early natural history television on the ABCPart 2: Provoking3 Developing the natural history genre: How animals and the media apparatus interact4 Making-of documentaries: Turning working animals into natural history animalsPart 3: Inhabiting5 The Nature of Australia series: Nationing nature6 After nature, after animals: Inhabiting a damaged planetConclusion: Political animalsReferencesIndex