Critical Animal and Media Studies Communication for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy [Hardcover]

This book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers. Contributors examine the convergence of media and animal ethics from theoretical, philosophical, discursive, social constructionist, and political economic perspectives. The book is divided into three sections: foundations, representation, and responsibility, outlining the different disciplinary approaches application to media studies and covering how non-human animals, and the relationship between humans and non-humans, are represented by the mass media, concluding with suggestions for how the media, as a major producer of cultural norms and values related to non-human animals and how we treat them, might improve such representations.

Introduction. The Convergence of Two Critical Approaches N?ria Almiron, Matthew Cole, and Carrie P. Freeman  Part 1:Foundations  1. Media Theories and the Crossroads of Critical Animal and Media Studies Debra Merskin  2. The Political Economy behind the Oppression of other Animals: Interest and Influence N?ria Almiron  3. Suffering is Not Enough: Media Depictions of Violence to other Animals and Social Change Nik Taylor  4. Consumer Vision: Speciesism, Misogyny, and Media Carol J. Adams  5. Origins of Oppression, Speciesist Ideology, and the Mass Media David A. NibertPart 2: Representation 6. Mixed Messages: Opinion Pieces by Representatives of US Nonhuman-Advocacy Organizations Joan Dunayer7. Getting (Green) Beef: Anti-Vegan Rhetoric and the Legitimizing of Eco-Friendly Oppression Matthew Cole 8. The Creation of a Killer Species: Cultural Rupture in Representations of Urban Foxes in UKl‹