Animal Activism On and Off Screen

Professor Claire Parkinson is Professor of Culture, Communication and Screen Studies, Associate Head of English and Creative Arts, and co-director of the Centre for Human Animal Studies (CfHAS) at Edge Hill University. Dr Lara Herring is a lecturer in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford, UK.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction by Claire Parkinson and Lara HerringAnimal rights activism is (not) a crime: Portraying violence and the animal rights agenda in German, American and British TV crime series (c. 1990–2010) by Mieke Roscher Inspiring animal liberation: The representation of animal activists in US animal advocacy documentaries (2000–2019) by Núria Almiron, Laura Fernández and Olatz Aranceta-Reboredo The Animal People: Reconstituting identity in the animal liberation movement by Emily Plec Anti-capitalism, animal rights and advocacy in Okja by Claire Parkinson (More than) food, farms and freedom: Turning exclusions in “pro-vegan” documentaries into productive interventions for animal advocacy by Paula Arcari “Please don’t look away”: The ghostly intersections between seeing and feeling in documentary film by Lorena Elke Dobbie From carnism to cannibalism: Intersectional speciesism in the fiction film Cloud Atlas by Lara Herring Animal activism formula for success: Lessons for capitalising on the “Blackfish effect” by Debra Merskin and Carrie Freeman Meat the Future: An interview with Liz Marshall Interviewed by Claire Parkinson From Brigitte Bardot to Pamela Anderson: Celebrity activists in France and the United States by Elizabeth Cherry Food fights: The limits of celebrity chef activism by Brett Mills Celebrity activism: PETA, Pamela, Porn by Toby Miller About a speech: The media’s reaction to a celebrity advocacy intervention by Loredana Loy “That’ll do, Pig!”: Critical potentials in celebrity-activist media ecologies by Eva Haifa Giraud

“A great read for those interested in activism, how the media spreads messages, and how the cultural landscape around us is formed.” – Anthony Morris, Books+Publishing