Popular media and animals

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Title:

Author:

Molloy, Claire.

ISBN:

9780230239241

Personal Author:

Molloy, Claire.

Publication Information:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Physical Description:

xii, 212 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

'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.

Subject Term:

Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects.

Animal rights.

Animals in mass media.

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Summary

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.