Popular Media and Animals

Informationen zum Autor CLAIRE MOLLOY is Senior Lecturer in Media in the School of Arts and Media at University of Brighton, UK. She is the author of Memento , has published on various topics related to media and animals and is a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

List of 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

Product details

• Authors: C. Molloy, Claire Molloy
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9781349316175
• ISBN: 978-1-349-31617-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series; Palgrave MacMillan Animal Ethi; The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; B, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethics, Performing Arts, Communication, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Social sciences—Philosophy, Theatre and Performance Arts, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Moral Philosophy, Media and Communication Theory, ethics;film;media;morality;television