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Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation
Steve Baker
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Description for Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation
Paperback. Explores how human beings use animals and images of animals to define themselves--and how those depictions interfere with our abilities to understand the true nature of animals. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFZ; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 358.
From Mickey Mouse to the teddy bear, from the Republican elephant to the use of "jackass" as an all-purpose insult, images of animals play a central role in politics, entertainment, and social interactions. In this penetrating look at how Western culture pictures the beast, Steve Baker examines how such images--sometimes affectionate, sometimes derogatory, always distorting--affect how real animals are perceived and treated.
Baker provides an animated discussion of how animals enter into the iconography of power through wartime depictions of the enemy, political cartoons, and sports symbolism. He examines a phenomenon he calls the "disnification" of animals, meaning ... Read more
From Mickey Mouse to the teddy bear, from the Republican elephant to the use of "jackass" as an all-purpose insult, images of animals play a central role in politics, entertainment, and social interactions. In this penetrating look at how Western culture pictures the beast, Steve Baker examines how such images--sometimes affectionate, sometimes derogatory, always distorting--affect how real animals are perceived and treated.
Baker provides an animated discussion of how animals enter into the iconography of power through wartime depictions of the enemy, political cartoons, and sports symbolism. He examines a phenomenon he calls the "disnification" of animals, meaning ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252070303
SKU
V9780252070303
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About Steve Baker
Steve Baker, a senior lecturer in the Department of Historical and Critical Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, England, is the author of The Postmodern Animal.Carol J. Adams is the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat.
Reviews for Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation
"A pleasure to read as well as being a substantial work of scholarship."
Andrew Johnson, Environmental Values "Immensely accessible ... Baker's study is witty, learned, sophisticated, and direct."
Norman Bryson, editor of Visual Culture: Images of Interpretation "The continued value of Picturing the Beast lies in Baker's insistence that we consider animals more carefully, even when their appearance ... Read more
Andrew Johnson, Environmental Values "Immensely accessible ... Baker's study is witty, learned, sophisticated, and direct."
Norman Bryson, editor of Visual Culture: Images of Interpretation "The continued value of Picturing the Beast lies in Baker's insistence that we consider animals more carefully, even when their appearance ... Read more