Popular media and animals
How do mainstream film, television, advertising, videogames and newspapers engage with topics such as vivisection, hunting, animal performance, farming, meat eating and animal control? This book explores social, economic, ethical and cultural aspects of relationships between popular media forms and...
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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The Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230306240 |
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How do mainstream film, television, advertising, videogames and newspapers engage with topics such as vivisection, hunting, animal performance, farming, meat eating and animal control? This book explores social, economic, ethical and cultural aspects of relationships between popular media forms and key animal issues. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230239241, 2011. |
Carrier Form: | 224 p. : 8 b&w, halftones, 8. |
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9780230239241 9780230306240 : 0230306241 : |
CLC: | I712.45 |
Contents: | Series Preface Acknowledgements 'Animals Sell Papers': The Value of Animal Stories Media and Animal Debates: Welfare, Rights, 'Animal Lovers' and Terrorists Stars: Animal Performers Wild: Authenticity and Getting Closer to Nature Experimental: The Visibility of Experimental Animals Farmed: Selling Animal Products Hunted: Recreational Killing Monsters: Horrors and Moral Panics Beginning at the End: Re-Imagining Human-Animal Relations Bibliography Index. |