[ecrea] Popular Media and Animals: New book announcement

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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>