Provoking Animal Realities on TV

Exploring the Affinities between STS and Screen Studies

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5337637
AutoresGay Hawkins (0000-0002-9057-6729, Western Sydney University, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia), Ben Dibley (0000-0002-7517-0405, Western Sydney University, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume46
Fascículo4
Páginas695-718
Data de publicação2021-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243920945381
OpenAlexW3047141018
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas24

This paper investigates the logistics of crafting and accounting for animal realities on television. Using the case of The Making of David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies, a behind-the-scenes documentary about how the Sky TV series David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies was created, it explores how the material reality of animals becomes a televisual reality. In seeking to challenge the lingering concern within many media studies critiques of wildlife TV about the constructed and manipulated nature of televisual animals, we propose an approach focused on how realities are provoked. This approach draws on recent debates within STS and screen theory about the contingent elements and accountability relations that become practically operative in making something real. Equally significant is the animal performer. How do the animals, often domesticated, that are used in television to simulate wildness or scientific facts participate in and resist the television apparatus? And how do these animal performances shape distinct animal-human relations and contact zones

Aesthetics · Art · Biology · CONQUEST · Environmental ethics · Media studies · Political science · Reality television · Reality tv · Sociology · Wildlife · Wildness · Animal and Plant Science Education · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Law · Ecology