Picturing the beast : animals, identity, and representation / Steve Baker ; foreword by Carol J. Adams.
Looks at how Western culture pictures the beast, examining how such images affect how real animals are perceived and treated.
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2001.
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| Edition: | 1st Illinois pbk. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Illinois paperback
- Preface to the first edition : the signifying animal
- From massacred cats to lucky cows : history and mentalités
- Eagles, lions, and bulldogs : an iconography of power
- Mad dogs and half-human beasts : the rhetoric of animality
- Of Maus and more : narrative, pleasure, and talking animals
- Is it real or is it Disney : unravelling the animal system
- Escaping the ratking : strategic images for animal rights.