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An Introduction to Animals and Visual Culture

By Randy Malamud

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
ISBN
1137009829, 9781137009821
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1748423 bytes)
Series
The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Pages
176\175
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-09-02 20:26:57
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Description

How and why do people "frame" animals so pervasively, and what are the ramifications 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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