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[ecrea] Popular Media and Animals: New book announcement

Mon Oct 10 11:24:54 GMT 2011



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/Popular Media and Animals /by Claire Molloy, University of Brighton

Published by Palgrave Macmillan

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/Popular Media and Animals/ examines various ways in which mainstream films, television, advertising, videogames and newspapers engage with key animal issues. Animal narratives and imagery are economically significant for popular media industries which, in turn, play an important role in shaping the limits and norms of public discourses on animals and animal issues. /Popular Media and Animals/ attends to the relations between the economics of production, the aesthetics and conventions of representational practices, the norms of human-animal relations and the historically situated discourses that connect and contextualize them. It draws widely from industry studies, attitudinal surveys, archival materials and mainstream media texts. Tackling a broad array of topics that includes vivisection, hunting, animal performance, farming, eating meat and animal control /Popular Media and Animals/ identifies where these issues intersect with recurring themes of suffering, sentimentality, authenticity and identity.

More information about /Popular Media and Animals/ is available from http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=378847

Dr. Claire Molloy
BA Broadcast Media Course Leader
School of Arts and Media
University of Brighton
Havelock Road
Hastings
East Sussex
TN34 1BE
E: (C.R.Molloy /at/ brighton.ac.uk) <mailto:(C.R.Molloy /at/ brighton.ac.uk)>
Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics: http://www.oxfordanimalethics.com/home/ */Memento,/*/ /Edinburgh University Press: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748637720 */Popular Media and Animals, /*Palgave Macmillan: http://www.palgrave.com/Products/title.aspx?pid=378847 */Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhumanism, /*Continuum: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=158574&SubjectId=1020&Subject2Id=1387 <http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=158574&SubjectId=1020&Subject2Id=1387>



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