Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity and Representation by Steve Baker
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Picturing the Beast
Summary
Considers some representations/symbolic ideas of animals in Western society, assessing their operation and influence in contemporary culture. It asks why animals play such a potent role; how our representations affect real animals; and how to achieve a more positive image of them.
Picturing the Beast Summary
Table of Contents
Part I History and power: from massacred cats to lucky cows - history and mentalites; eagles, lions and bulldogs - an iconography of power. Part II Hatred and pleasure: mad dogs and half-human beasts - the rhetoric of animality; of Maus and more - narrative, pleasure and talking animals. Part III Contradiction and change: is it real or is it Disney? - unravelling the animal system; escaping the ratking - strategic images for animal rights.
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GOR005105702
9780719033780
0719033780
Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity and Representation by Steve Baker
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Manchester University Press
1993-01-28
256
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