Claudia Alonso-Recarte is Associate Professor in the Department of English and German at the University of Valencia, Spain. She specializes in the field of (Critical) Animal Studies, with a particular interest in the representation of nonhuman animals in literature and film. She has published in leading academic journals, including Gender, Place & Culture, MELUS, Men and Masculinities, Journal for Critical Animals Studies, Atlantis and Studies in Theatre and Performance. She has served as principal investigator of two funded research projects on animal advocacy documentary film and is the founder and director of the research group Animals in Literary and Visual Cultures (CULIVIAN) at the University of Valencia.

• Introduction: Animal Advocacy Documentary as a Subgenre; 1. Moral Shock and the Representation of Nonhuman Animal Bodies as Sites of Violence and Authenticity; 2. The “Biograph-able” Subject: Primates, Cetaceans and Anti-captivity Rhetoric; 3. Looking at Activists: Representations of Human Morality; 4. Animal Advocacy at the Intersection with Gender: The (Fe)male Gaze and the Feminine Aesthetic; 5. The Instrumentalization of Celebrity Culture; 6. The Anthropocene and Post-postmodernist Ethical Self-reflexivity; Index

Claudia Alonso-Recarte is Associate Professor in the Department of English and German at the University of Valencia, Spain. She specializes in the field of (Critical) Animal Studies, with a particular interest in the representation of nonhuman animals in literature and film. She has published in leading academic journals, including Gender, Place & Culture, MELUS, Men and Masculinities, Journal for Critical Animals Studies, Atlantis and Studies in Theatre and Performance. She has served as principal investigator of two funded research projects on animal advocacy documentary film and is the founder and director of the research group Animals in Literary and Visual Cultures (CULIVIAN) at the University of Valencia.

• Introduction: Animal Advocacy Documentary as a Subgenre; 1. Moral Shock and the Representation of Nonhuman Animal Bodies as Sites of Violence and Authenticity; 2. The “Biograph-able” Subject: Primates, Cetaceans and Anti-captivity Rhetoric; 3. Looking at Activists: Representations of Human Morality; 4. Animal Advocacy at the Intersection with Gender: The (Fe)male Gaze and the Feminine Aesthetic; 5. The Instrumentalization of Celebrity Culture; 6. The Anthropocene and Post-postmodernist Ethical Self-reflexivity; Index

Claudia Alonso-Recarte is Associate Professor in the Department of English and German at the University of Valencia, Spain. She specializes in the field of (Critical) Animal Studies, with a particular interest in the representation of nonhuman animals in literature and film. She has published in leading academic journals, including Gender, Place & Culture, MELUS, Men and Masculinities, Journal for Critical Animals Studies, Atlantis and Studies in Theatre and Performance. She has served as principal investigator of two funded research projects on animal advocacy documentary film and is the founder and director of the research group Animals in Literary and Visual Cultures (CULIVIAN) at the University of Valencia.

• Introduction: Animal Advocacy Documentary as a Subgenre; 1. Moral Shock and the Representation of Nonhuman Animal Bodies as Sites of Violence and Authenticity; 2. The “Biograph-able” Subject: Primates, Cetaceans and Anti-captivity Rhetoric; 3. Looking at Activists: Representations of Human Morality; 4. Animal Advocacy at the Intersection with Gender: The (Fe)male Gaze and the Feminine Aesthetic; 5. The Instrumentalization of Celebrity Culture; 6. The Anthropocene and Post-postmodernist Ethical Self-reflexivity; Index