Animals in the American Popular Imagination
Virtual conference 12-16 September 2022
In his book Animals on Television (2017), Brett Mills states that “representations of animals often function to highlight cultural understandings about what it is to be human.” Nonhuman animals have been unwilling objects of the human gaze: humans have been exploiting animals (real and imagined) on the basis, and the attendant continued perpetuation, of self-assigned human superiority and centrality.
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