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An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture

Palgrave MacMillan Animal Ethics

Hardcover

Published: 3rd July 2012
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How and why do people 'frame' animals so pervasively, and what are the ramifications are of this habit? For animals, being put into a cultural frame (a film, a website, a pornographic tableau, an advertisement, a cave drawing, a zoo) means being taken out of their natural contexts, leaving them somehow displaced and decontextualized. Human vision of the animal equates to power over the animal. We envision ourselves as monarchs of all we survey, but our dismal record of polluting and destroying vast swaths of nature shows that we are indeed not masters of the ecosphere. A more ethically accurate stance in our relationship to animals should thus challenge the omnipotence of our visual access to them.

List of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgements Framed Animals Famous Animals Photographic Animals Film Animals Pornographic Animals Weird Animals Zoo Animals Notes Bibliography Index

ISBN: 9781137009821
ISBN-10: 1137009829
Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 176
Published: 3rd July 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.1 x 14.2  x 1.5
Weight (kg): 0.32