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Animals in Narrative Film and Television
Strange and Familiar Creatures
- 239 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Animal Characters
- Chapter 1: āBeneath the Surface Lies the Futureā: Narrative, Characterization, and the Natural World in seaQuest DSVās Darwin
- Chapter 2: Ducks, Ducks and More Ducks: Comedy and Social Class in Animated TV
- Chapter 3: āDonāt Just Fly, Soarā: Reading Disability in Disneyās Animation Dumbo (1941) and Live-Action Remake Dumbo (2019)
- Chapter 4: Making the Invisible Visible: Displaced and Marginalized Animal Characters in Samuel Fullerās White Dog and KornĆ©l MundruczĆ³ās White God
- Part II: Animals and Narrative Functions
- Chapter 5: Worse than Their Bite: Dogs and Horror
- Chapter 6: The Bad Habits of Rabbits: An Ecocritical Examination of Rabbits as Antagonists in Film
- Chapter 7: Of Animals and Aliens: Identifying with the Nonhuman Other in Guardians of the Galaxy
- 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, 2017ā)
- Chapter 9: The Transcendence of the Borders: The Animal Hero in Hosoda Mamoruās The Boy and the Beast
- Chapter 10: The Esperpento of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
- Chapter 11: (Un)learning with āMonstersā: Animals, Patriarchal Oppression, and Ethics of Care in Guillermo del Toroās The Shape of Water
- Index
- About the Contributors