Description: This book explores fictional representations of animals in animated and live-action film and television and examines the way these representations intersect with culture, race, gender, class, disability, and health issues. Contributors analyze the narrative functions of famili...
Review Quotes: ""Animals in Narrative Film and Television offers an intersectional exploration of animal representation in film and television that connects race, class, and disability with animal signification. Examining a diversity of visual media, ranging from White Dog, Big Mouth, and Count Duckula to Guardians of the Galaxy, The Boy and the Beast, and The Shape of Water, for instance, this book is diversely theoretical and will be of use to anyone interested in film studies and animal studies broadly, and questions of human and animal oppression, othering, and representation more specifically."" --Monica Mattfeld, University of Northern British Columbia