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Animals in Narrative Film and Television: Strange and Familiar Creatures [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 238 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 227x150x19 mm, weight: 367 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-May-2024
  • Leidėjas: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
  • ISBN-10: 166690483X
  • ISBN-13: 9781666904833
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 238 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 227x150x19 mm, weight: 367 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 15-May-2024
  • Leidėjas: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
  • ISBN-10: 166690483X
  • ISBN-13: 9781666904833
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:

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 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.

Recenzijos

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. -- Monica Mattfeld, University of Northern British Columbia

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 DSVs Darwin

Alissa Burger

Chapter 2: Ducks, Ducks and More Ducks: Comedy and Social Class in Animated
TV

David Hipple

Chapter 3:Dont Just Fly, Soar: Reading Disability in Disneys Animation
Dumbo (1941) and Live-Action Remake Dumbo (2019)

Jessica Gibson

Chapter 4: Making the Invisible Visible: Displaced and Marginalized Animal
Characters in Samuel Fullers White Dog and Kornél Mundruczós 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
Mamorus 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 Toros The Shape of Water

Monica Sousa

About the Contributors
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.