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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484458303321

Autore

Stanton Rebecca Rose

Titolo

The Disneyfication of Animals / / by Rebecca Rose Stanton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030493165 (PDF ebook)

9783030493165

3030493164

9783030493158 (hbk.)

3030493156

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series, , 2634-6680

Disciplina

791.43090936

610

Soggetti

Veterinary medicine

Ethics

Animated films

Veterinary Science

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Animation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. WDAS' Portrayal of Food Farming- 2. Hunting and Fishing in WDAS films -- 3. Clothing and Other Objects Made from Animals -- 4. Pets and Working Animals in WDAS Films -- 5. Animal "Entertainers" in WDAS Films.

Sommario/riassunto

This book critically examines how Walt Disney Animation Studios has depicted - and sometimes failed to depict - different forms of harming and objectifying non-human animals in their films. Each chapter addresses a different form of animal harm and objectification through the theories of speciesism, romanticism, and the 'collapse of compassion' effect, from farming, hunting and fishing, to clothing, work, and entertainment. Stanton lucidly presents the dichotomy between depictions of higher order, anthropomorphised and



neotonised animal characters and that of lower-order species, showing furthermore how these depictions are closely linked to changing social attitudes about acceptable forms of animal harm. An engaging and novel contribution to the field of Critical Animal Studies, this book explores the use of animals not only in Disney's best known animated films such as 101 Dalmatians, but also lesser known features including Home on the Range and Fun and Fancy Free. A quantitative appendix supplying data on how often each animal species appears and the amount of times animal harm or objectification is depicted in over fifty films provides an invaluable resource and addition to scholars working in both Disney and animal studies.