Animals in Narrative Film and Television

Strange and Familiar Creatures

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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This book explores fictional representations and narrative functions of animal characters in animated and live-action film and television, examining the ways in which these representations intersect with a variety of social issues. Contributors cover a range of animal characters, from heroes to villains, across a variety of screen genres and formats, including anime, comedy, romance, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Aesthetic features of these works, along with the increased latitude that fictionalized narratives and alternative worlds provide, allow existing social issues to be brought to the forefront in order to effect change in our societies. By incorporating animal figures into media, these screen narratives have gained the ability to critique actions carried out by human beings and explore dimensions of both the human/animal connection and the intersectionality of race, culture, class, gender, and ability, ultimately teaching viewers how to become more human in our interactions with the world around us. Scholars of film studies, media studies, and animal studies will find this book of particular interest.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-03-19
Mått150 x 227 x 19 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor238
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781666904833

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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Karin Beeler and Stan BeelerPart I. Animal Characters: Racial, Ethnic, and Social ContextsChapter 1: “Beneath the Surface Lies the Future”: Narrative, Characterization, and the Natural World with seaQuest DSV’s DarwinAlissa BurgerChapter 2: Ducks, Ducks and More Ducks: Comedy and Social Class in Animated TVDavid Hipple Chapter 3:“Don’t Just Fly, Soar”: Reading Disability in Disney’s Animation Dumbo (1941) and Live-Action Remake Dumbo (2019)Jessica GibsonChapter 4: Making the Invisible Visible: Displaced and Marginalized Animal Characters in Samuel Fuller’s White Dog and Kornél Mundruczó’s White GodHeather Rolufs and Karin Beeler Part II. Animals and Narrative Functions: Monsters/Victims/HeroesChapter 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 FilmMK Pinder Chapter 7 : Of Animals and Aliens: Identifying with the Non-Human Other in Guar

“Animals in Narrative Film and Television offers an intersectional exploration of animal representation in film and television that connects race, class, and disability with animal signification. Examining a diversity of visual media, ranging from White Dog, Big Mouth, and Count Duckula to Guardians of the Galaxy, The Boy and the Beast, and The Shape of Water, for instance, this book is diversely theoretical and will be of use to anyone interested in film studies and animal studies broadly, and questions of human and animal oppression, othering, and representation more specifically.”