Screening the Nonhuman

Representations of Animal Others in the Media
Herausgeber: George, Amber E.; Schatz, J. L.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Animal Studies and Theory
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781498513746
• ISBN-10: 1498513743
• Artikelnr.: 44675107

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Critical Media Studies and Critical Animal Studies at the Crossroads
Amber George and J.L. Schatz Part I Chapter One: The Brown Wizard's Unexpected Politics: Speciesist Fiction and the Ethics of The Hobbit
J.L. Schatz Chapter Two: The Passing Faerie and the Transforming Raven: Animalized Compulsory Re-covery
Endurance
and Dis/ability in Maleficent
Jennifer Polish Chapter Three: Jabbering Jaws: Reimagining Representations of Sharks Post-Jaws
Matthew Lerberg Chapter Four: Horseplay: Beastly Cinematic Performances in Steven Spielberg's War Horse
Stella Hockenhull Chapter Five: Would Bugs Bunny Have Diabetes?: The Realistic Consequences of Cartoons for Non/Human Animals
Amber E. George Part II Chapter Six: I Am Legend (2007)
U.S. Imperialism
and the Liminal Animality of "The Last Man
Carter Soles Chapter Seven: Ape Anxiety: Intelligence
Human Supremacy
and Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Sean Parson Chapter Eight: The Vicious Cycle of Disnification and Audience Demands: Representations of the Non/Human in Martin Rosen's Watership Down (1978) and The Plague Dogs (1982)
Anja Höing & Harald Husemann Chapter Nine: The "Nature-Run-Amok" Cinema of the 1970s: Representation of Non/human Animals in Frogs and Orca
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and César Alfonso Marino Part III Chapter Ten: Cyberbeasts: Substitution and Trivialization of the Non/Human Animal in Home Movies
Memes
and Video Games
Joseph Anderton Chapter Eleven: Pet-Animals in the Concrete Jungle: Tales of Abandonment
Failures
and Sentimentality in San Hua and Twelve Nights
Fiona Yuk-wa Law Chapter Twelve: In Defense of Non/Humans: Mystification and Oppression in the Sports Mascoting Process
Guilherme Nothen and Michael Atkinson Chapter Thirteen: On Empathy
Anthropocentrism
and Rhetorical Tropes: An Analysis of Online "Save the Bees!" Campaign Images
Christina Victoria Cedillo