Seeing Species: Re-Presentations of Animals in Media & Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9781433153594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 266 str.

Debra L. Merskin

Opis

This book brings together sociological, psychological, historical, cultural, and environmental ways of thinking about nonhuman animals and our relationships with them.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - List of Tables - Preface - Acknowledgements - Section 1: Foundations - Introduction - Animal Media Studies - Children and Animals - Re-presenting Animals in Popular Culture - Section 2: Case Studies - Knuffle Bunnies and Devoted Ducklings: The Formation of Gender Identity in Picture Books - Polarizing Bears: The Semiotic Disconnect - The Plight of the Prairie Dog - Catty: The Feral Feminine in Media - Nevermore: Ravens in Game of Thrones - Fables and Foibles as Global Economic Concepts: Animals on the Covers of The Economist - Index.

O autorze

Debra L. Merskin (PhD, Syracuse University) is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Journalism & Communication at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on the role of media in obscuring or revealing voices and faces of those who are otherized by mainstream American culture.