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ISBN:
9781666904826
Content:
This book explores fictional representations of animals in animated and live-action film and television and examines the way these representations intersect with culture, race, gender, class, disability, and health issues. Contributors analyze the narrative functions of familiar animals as well as fantastic and hybrid creatures.
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Definition of the Term Animal -- Genre/Style/Aesthetic Choices and Animals -- Chapter Divisions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Animal Characters -- Chapter 1: "Beneath the Surface Lies the Future": Narrative, Characterization, and the Natural World in seaQuest DSV's Darwin -- Dolphins in Popular Culture -- SeaQuest DSV and Darwin -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Ducks, Ducks and More Ducks: Comedy and Social Class in Animated TV -- Context and Format -- Theories of Comedy, for Older and Younger Audiences -- Popular Duck Forebears -- Background, Adaptation, and Evolution -- Duckula as Lead Character -- Bird Characters -- Accents -- Social Class -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: "Don't Just Fly, Soar": Reading Disability in Disney's Animation Dumbo (1941) and Live-Action Remake Dumbo (2019) -- Critical Disability Theory-Medical versus Social -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Making the Invisible Visible: Displaced and Marginalized Animal Characters in Samuel Fuller's White Dog and Kornél Mundruczó's White God -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Animals and Narrative Functions -- Chapter 5: Worse than Their Bite: Dogs and Horror -- Transgressive Dogs -- Dog Eat Dog -- On the Attack: Aggressive Dogs -- Keep You Safe: Victims and Companions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: The Bad Habits of Rabbits: An Ecocritical Examination of Rabbits as Antagonists in Film -- Ecocriticism and Rabbits -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Of Animals and Aliens: Identifying with the Nonhuman Other in Guardians of the Galaxy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III: Animal/Human Hybrids and Other Creatures.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781666904819
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Animals in narrative film and television Lanham : Lexington Books, 2022 ISBN 9781666904819
Language:
English
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