Animals on Television ISBN: 9781137516831 Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan UK Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited Subjects: Literature Cultural and Media Studies;
This book is the first in-depth study of the representation of animals on television. It explores the variety of ways animals are represented in audio-visual media, including wildlife documentaries and children's animated series, and the consequences these representations have for those species. Brett Mills discusses key ideas and approaches essential for thinking about animals drawing on relevant debates in philosophy, politics, gender studies, humanism and posthumanism, and ethics. The chapters examine different animal representations, focusing on zoos, pets, wildlife and meat. They present case studies, including discussions of Peppa Pig , The Hunt and The Dog Whisperer . This book will be of interest to readers exploring media studies, contemporary television, animal studies, and debates about representation.
Brett Mills is Senior Lecturer in Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. His work on animals in media has been published in Screen , Continuum , Critical Studies in Television , European Journal of Cultural Studies , Environmental Communication and Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies . He has been profiled in the Journal of Wild Culture .
