Screening the Nonhuman (eBook)

Amber E. George is program coordinator for the Intergroup Dialogue Project at Cornell University.J.L. Schatz is instructor at Binghamton University.

Introduction: Critical Media Studies and Critical Animal Studies at the Crossroads, Amber George and J.L. SchatzPart IChapter One: The Brown Wizard’s Unexpected Politics: Speciesist Fiction and the Ethics of The Hobbit, J.L. SchatzChapter Two: The Passing Faerie and the Transforming Raven: Animalized Compulsory Re-covery, Endurance, and Dis/ability in Maleficent, Jennifer PolishChapter Three: Jabbering Jaws: Reimagining Representations of Sharks Post-Jaws, Matthew LerbergChapter Four: Horseplay: Beastly Cinematic Performances in Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, Stella HockenhullChapter Five: Would Bugs Bunny Have Diabetes?: The Realistic Consequences of Cartoons for Non/Human Animals, Amber E. GeorgePart IIChapter Six: I Am Legend (2007), U.S. Imperialism, and the Liminal Animality of “The Last Man, Carter SolesChapter Seven: Ape Anxiety: Intelligence, Human Supremacy, and Rise and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Sean ParsonChapter 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 HusemannChapter 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 MarinoPart IIIChapter Ten: Cyberbeasts: Substitution and Trivialization of the Non/Human Animal in Home Movies, Memes, and Video Games, Joseph AndertonChapter Eleven: Pet-Animals in the Concrete Jungle: Tales of Abandonment, Failures, and Sentimentality in San Hua and Twelve Nights, Fiona Yuk-wa LawChapter Twelve: In Defense of Non/Humans: Mystification and Oppression in the Sports Mascoting Process, Guilherme Nothen and Michael AtkinsonChapter Thirteen: On Empathy, Anthropocentrism, and Rhetorical Tropes: An Analysis of Online “Save the Bees!” Campaign Images, Christina Victoria Cedillo