Steve Baker
Picturing the Beast
Animals, Identity, and Representation
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From Mickey Mouse to the use of jackass as an all- purpose insult, images of animals play a central role in politics, entertainment, and social interactions. In this penetrating look at how Western culture pictures the beast, Steve Baker examines how such images -- sometimes affectionate, sometimes derogatory, always distorting -- affect how real animals are perceived and treated.Baker provides an animated discussion of how animals enter into the iconography of power through wartime depictions of the enemy, political cartoons, and sports symbolism. He examines a phenomenon he calls the disnification of animals, meaning a reduction of the anim…
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From Mickey Mouse to the use of jackass as an all- purpose insult, images of animals play a central role in politics, entertainment, and social interactions. In this penetrating look at how Western culture pictures the beast, Steve Baker examines how such images -- sometimes affectionate, sometimes derogatory, always distorting -- affect how real animals are perceived and treated.Baker provides an animated discussion of how animals enter into the iconography of power through wartime depictions of the enemy, political cartoons, and sports symbolism. He examines a phenomenon he calls the disnification of animals, meaning a reduction of the animal to the trivial and stupid, and shows how books featuring talking animals underscore human superiority. He also discusses how his findings might inform the strategies of animal rights advocates seeking to call public attention to animal suffering and abuse. Until animals are extricated from the baggage of imposed images, Baker maintains, neither they nor their predicaments can be clearly seen.For this edition, Baker provides a new introduction, specifically addressing an American audience, that touches on such topics as the Cow Parade and animatronic animals in recent films.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-252-07030-3
- EAN: 9780252070303
- Produktnummer: 9405076
- Verlag: University of Illinois Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.2 cm 358 g
- Gewicht: 358
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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