An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture PDF
by R. Malamud
Part of the The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series series
Description
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.
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- Publication Date:30/05/2012
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:176 pages, 16 black & white halftones
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:30/05/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781137009845
