This book explores fictional representations of animals in animated and live-action film and television and examines the way these representations intersect with culture, race, gender, class, disability, and health issues. Contributors analyze the narrative functions of familiar animals as well as fantastic and hybrid creatures.
This book explores fictional representations of animals in animated and live-action film and television and examines the way these representations intersect with culture, race, gender, class, disability, and health issues. Contributors analyze the narrative functions of familiar animals as well as fantastic and hybrid creatures.
Karin Beeler is professor in the English Department at the University of Northern British Columbia. Stan Beeler is professor emeritus of English at the University of Northern British Columbia.
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Table of Contents Introduction: Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler Part I. Animal Characters: Racial, Ethnic, and Social Contexts Chapter 1: "Beneath the Surface Lies the Future": Narrative, Characterization, and the Natural World with seaQuest DSV's Darwin Alissa Burger Chapter 2: Ducks, Ducks and More Ducks: Comedy and Social Class in Animated TV David Hipple Chapter 3:"Don't Just Fly, Soar": Reading Disability in Disney's Animation Dumbo (1941) and Live-Action Remake Dumbo (2019) Jessica Gibson Chapter 4: Making the Invisible Visible: Displaced and Marginalized Animal Characters in Samuel Fuller's White Dog and Kornél Mundruczó's White God Heather Rolufs and Karin Beeler Part II. Animals and Narrative Functions: Monsters/Victims/Heroes Chapter 5: Worse than their Bite: Dogs and Horror Catherine Pugh Chapter 6: The Bad Habits of Rabbits: An Ecocritical Examination of Rabbits as Antagonists in Film MK Pinder Chapter 7 : Of Animals and Aliens: Identifying with the Non-Human Other in Guardians of the Galaxy Jessica Bay and Jonathan Osborn Part III. Animal / Human Hybrids and Other Creatures Chapter 8: Hormone Monsters and Animal Antagonists: Animating Teen Horrors and Promoting Eudaimonia in Big Mouth (Netflix, 2017-) Georgia Aitaki Chapter 9: The Transcendence of the Borders: The Animal Hero in Hosoda Mamoru's The Boy and the Beast Katsuya Izumi Chapter 10: The Esperpento of Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts Sumor Ziva Sheppard Chapter 11: (Un)learning with 'Monsters': Animals, Patriarchal Oppression, and Ethics of Care in Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water Monica Sousa About the Contributors
Table of Contents Introduction: Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler Part I. Animal Characters: Racial, Ethnic, and Social Contexts Chapter 1: "Beneath the Surface Lies the Future": Narrative, Characterization, and the Natural World with seaQuest DSV's Darwin Alissa Burger Chapter 2: Ducks, Ducks and More Ducks: Comedy and Social Class in Animated TV David Hipple Chapter 3:"Don't Just Fly, Soar": Reading Disability in Disney's Animation Dumbo (1941) and Live-Action Remake Dumbo (2019) Jessica Gibson Chapter 4: Making the Invisible Visible: Displaced and Marginalized Animal Characters in Samuel Fuller's White Dog and Kornél Mundruczó's White God Heather Rolufs and Karin Beeler Part II. Animals and Narrative Functions: Monsters/Victims/Heroes Chapter 5: Worse than their Bite: Dogs and Horror Catherine Pugh Chapter 6: The Bad Habits of Rabbits: An Ecocritical Examination of Rabbits as Antagonists in Film MK Pinder Chapter 7 : Of Animals and Aliens: Identifying with the Non-Human Other in Guardians of the Galaxy Jessica Bay and Jonathan Osborn Part III. Animal / Human Hybrids and Other Creatures Chapter 8: Hormone Monsters and Animal Antagonists: Animating Teen Horrors and Promoting Eudaimonia in Big Mouth (Netflix, 2017-) Georgia Aitaki Chapter 9: The Transcendence of the Borders: The Animal Hero in Hosoda Mamoru's The Boy and the Beast Katsuya Izumi Chapter 10: The Esperpento of Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts Sumor Ziva Sheppard Chapter 11: (Un)learning with 'Monsters': Animals, Patriarchal Oppression, and Ethics of Care in Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water Monica Sousa About the Contributors
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