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Seeing Species: Re-Presentations of Animals in Media & Popular Culture

Seeing Species: Re-Presentations of Animals in Media & Popular Culture

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AnthropologyBusiness of ArtGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1433147564
ISBN13: 9781433147562
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Apr 20 2018
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Animals are everywhere. They inhabit our forests, our fields, our imaginations, our dreams, and our stories. Making appearances in advertisements, television programs, movies, books, Internet memes, and art, symbolic animals do tremendous work for us selling goods, services, and ideas, as well as acting as stand-ins for our interests and ideas. Yet, does knowing animals only symbolically impact their lived experiences? Seeing Species: Re-presentations of Animals in Media & Popular Culture examines the use of animals in media, tracking species from appearances in rock art and picture books to contemporary portrayals in television programs and movies. Primary questions explored include: Where does thinking of other beings in a detached, impersonal, and objectified way come from? Do the mass media contribute to this distancing? When did humans first think about animals as other others? Main themes include examining the persistence of the human-animal divide, parallels in the treatment of otherized human beings and animals, and the role of media in either liberating or limiting real animals.

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