Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-1374-6 • Hardback • April 2016 • $123.00 • (£95.00)
978-1-4985-1376-0 • Paperback • November 2018 • $50.99 • (£39.00)
978-1-4985-1375-3 • eBook • April 2016 • $48.00 • (£37.00)
Amber E. George is program coordinator for the Intergroup Dialogue Project at Cornell University.
J.L. Schatz is instructor at Binghamton University.
Introduction: Critical Media Studies and Critical Animal Studies at the Crossroads, Amber George and J.L. Schatz
Part I
Chapter One: The Brown Wizard’s Unexpected Politics: Speciesist Fiction and the Ethics of The Hobbit, J.L. Schatz
Chapter Two: The Passing Faerie and the Transforming Raven: Animalized Compulsory Re-covery, Endurance, and Dis/ability in Maleficent, Jennifer Polish
Chapter Three: Jabbering Jaws: Reimagining Representations of Sharks Post-Jaws, Matthew Lerberg
Chapter Four: Horseplay: Beastly Cinematic Performances in Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, Stella Hockenhull
Chapter Five: Would Bugs Bunny Have Diabetes?: The Realistic Consequences of Cartoons for Non/Human Animals, Amber E. George
Part II
Chapter Six: I Am Legend (2007), U.S. Imperialism, and the Liminal Animality of “The Last Man, Carter Soles
Chapter Seven: Ape Anxiety: Intelligence, Human Supremacy, and Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Sean Parson
Chapter Eight: The Vicious Cycle of Disnification and Audience Demands: Representations of the Non/Human in Martin Rosen’s Watership Down (1978) and The Plague Dogs (1982), Anja Höing & Harald Husemann
Chapter Nine: The “Nature-Run-Amok” Cinema of the 1970s: Representation of Non/human Animals in Frogs and Orca, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and César Alfonso Marino
Part III
Chapter Ten: Cyberbeasts: Substitution and Trivialization of the Non/Human Animal in Home Movies, Memes, and Video Games, Joseph Anderton
Chapter Eleven: Pet-Animals in the Concrete Jungle: Tales of Abandonment, Failures, and Sentimentality in San Hua and Twelve Nights, Fiona Yuk-wa Law
Chapter Twelve: In Defense of Non/Humans: Mystification and Oppression in the Sports Mascoting Process, Guilherme Nothen and Michael Atkinson
Chapter Thirteen: On Empathy, Anthropocentrism, and Rhetorical Tropes: An Analysis of Online “Save the Bees!” Campaign Images, Christina Victoria Cedillo
Our fellow animals have had rough treatment on film—like many of our fellow humans. But they cannot organize and protest like we can. The book you have before you gives us tools and evidence to make the case on their behalf. Freedom from harm is a basic animal right, and that applies to issues of representation as well as physical treatment. Their cause must be our cause.
— Toby Miller, author of Television Studies: The Basics
Finally, analyses of animal representations in popular culture from an explicitly Critical Animal Studies point of view. I enthusiastically recommend Screening the Nonhuman: Representations of Animal Others to those who want to enhance visual literacy while opening their minds to the revolutionary perspective of total liberation.
— Ian Purdy, Executive Director, Institute for Critical Animal Studies
A wonderfully insightful, provocative, and much needed book that combines critical theory, media analysis, and cultural studies with the ethics and urgency of animal liberation politics. This crossover work builds bridges between activism, academia, and the general public, and will surely inspire discussion and debate about the role of nonhuman animals in both film and society.
— Jason Del Gandio, author of "Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists"