Farmed Animals on Film

A Manifesto for a New Ethic
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-23834-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 231 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

Reihe: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series

This book aims to show how film can increase awareness of the plight of farmed animals without exploiting them.  Much has been written on the rights of animals, be they in the wild or circuses, hunted, experimented on, used for entertainment, or slaughtered and consumed. However, there has been little that has examined in any detail the filming of farmed animals, and nothing on a declaration of rights for such animals, thus leaving them in a limbo of neglect. Stephen Marcus Finn offers a manifesto on how to foster the rights of farmed animals in filming and sets out to rectify this lacuna.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finn, Stephen Marcus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin Veterinärmedizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Concepts and Theoretical Underpinning.- 3. Cruelty to Animals in Films: A Brief History.-  4. Animal Rights in the Arts.- 5. Animal Rights in Film.- 6. Manifestos Across the Board.- 7. A Farmed Animal Rights Manifesto (FARM) for Film.- 8. FARM as Manifested in Animal Rights Films.- 9. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Marcus Finn is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pretoria.  He is an animal rights activist, a novelist, and playwright whose writing concentrates on social outsiders and the oppressed.