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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.

Culture --- Communication. --- Motion pictures and television. --- Ethics. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Film and Television Studies. --- Humanism. --- Media Studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Animals on television. --- Animals in television --- Television --- Working animals --- Screen Studies. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Classical education --- Classical philology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Renaissance --- Moving-pictures and television --- Television and motion pictures

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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.

Philosophy --- General ethics --- Higher education --- Mass communications --- Film --- Television play --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- TV (televisie) --- communicatie --- ethiek --- film --- humanisme --- honden

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The study of humour constitutes an extremely broad range of approaches related to a multiplicity of disciplines across the social sciences. Work on humour can be found in philosophy, political studies, sociology, media studies, linguistics, and psychology, amongst others. Its scope is large, encompassing humour as a form of communication in both everyday interactions between people and within forms of culture such as television and books. It focuses on how humour is produced, what constitutes humour, what effects humour has, and the purposes for which humour is used. The study of humour is asserted as significant because humour and comedy are typically understood as ordinary, everyday phenomena that are easily understood and largely insignificant. As such, studying humour often represents an intervention into long-established disciplines ...

Sociology. --- Communication and Media Studies.