Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Karin Beeler ,  Stan Beeler ,  Georgia Aitaki ,  Jessica Bay
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9781666904819

ISBN 10:   1666904813
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   23 September 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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 DSV’s Darwin Alissa Burger Chapter 2: Ducks, Ducks and More Ducks: Comedy and Social Class in Animated TV David Hipple Chapter 3:“Don’t Just Fly, Soar”: Reading Disability in Disney’s Animation Dumbo (1941) and Live-Action Remake Dumbo (2019) Jessica Gibson Chapter 4: Making the Invisible Visible: Displaced and Marginalized Animal Characters in Samuel Fuller’s White Dog and Kornél Mundruczó’s 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 Mamoru’s 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 Toro’s The Shape of Water Monica Sousa About the Contributors

Reviews

Animal Heroes, Villains, and Others 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

""""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

""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.""

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

"""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."""

Author Information

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.

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