Screening the Nonhuman

Introduction: Critical Media Studies and Critical Animal Studies at the Crossroads, Amber George and J.L. Schatz

Part I
Chapter One: The Brown Wizard’s Unexpected Politics: Speciesist Fiction and the Ethics of The Hobbit, J.L. Schatz
Chapter Two: The Passing Faerie and the Transforming Raven: Animalized Compulsory Re-covery, Endurance, and Dis/ability in Maleficent, Jennifer Polish
Chapter Three: Jabbering Jaws: Reimagining Representations of Sharks Post-Jaws, Matthew Lerberg
Chapter Four: Horseplay: Beastly Cinematic Performances in Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, Stella Hockenhull
Chapter Five: Would Bugs Bunny Have Diabetes?: The Realistic Consequences of Cartoons for Non/Human Animals, Amber E. George

Part II
Chapter Six: I Am Legend (2007), U.S. Imperialism, and the Liminal Animality of “The Last Man, Carter Soles
Chapter Seven: Ape Anxiety: Intelligence, Human Supremacy, and Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Sean Parson
Chapter Eight: The Vicious Cycle of Disnification and Audience Demands: Representations of the Non/Human in Martin Rosen’s Watership Down (1978) and The Plague Dogs (1982), Anja Höing & Harald Husemann
Chapter Nine: The “Nature-Run-Amok” Cinema of the 1970s: Representation of Non/human Animals in Frogs and Orca, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and César Alfonso Marino

Part III
Chapter Ten: Cyberbeasts: Substitution and Trivialization of the Non/Human Animal in Home Movies, Memes, and Video Games, Joseph Anderton
Chapter Eleven: Pet-Animals in the Concrete Jungle: Tales of Abandonment, Failures, and Sentimentality in San Hua and Twelve Nights, Fiona Yuk-wa Law
Chapter Twelve: In Defense of Non/Humans: Mystification and Oppression in the Sports Mascoting Process, Guilherme Nothen and Michael Atkinson
Chapter Thirteen: On Empathy, Anthropocentrism, and Rhetorical Tropes: An Analysis of Online “Save the Bees!” Campaign Images, Christina Victoria Cedillo