Returning the Look
Emotion, Encounter, and Inter-Subjectivity in Wildlife Films
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12419232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gioia Barnbrook (1 Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Scotland [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 523-534 |
| Publication date | 2016-11-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Society and Animals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1119 • E-ISSN: 1568-5306 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685306-12341434 |
| OpenAlex | W2560192289 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
It has been argued that a contemporary penchant for wildlife images serves to cloak the various destructive impacts human actions have on nonhuman animals, as well as to distract us from our ever-decreasing direct encounters with them. However, this form of media has also demonstrated its effectiveness as a method for communicating conservation messages to the wider public. This paper seeks to examine this tension through an analysis of a famous reunion clip from the documentary Christian the Lion (1971), exploring how audiences have reacted to this clip through a selection of YouTube comments and asking what these comments can tell us about contemporary ideas relating to human/animal inter-subjectivity
Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Media studies · Selection (genetic algorithm · Sociology · Subjectivity · Wildlife · Animal and Plant Science Education · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence · Ecology
Wildlife Films
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Cat Culture, Human Culture
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The Audience in the Wilderness
Faraway, so close! Proximity and distance in ethnography online
Hey, They're Just Like Us!” Representations of the Animal World in the Discovery Channel's Nature Programming
"John Berger's "Why Look at Animals
Well its remote, I suppose, innit?” The relational politics of bird-watching through the CCTV lens
Multinatural geographies for the Anthropocene
I fell in love with Carlos the meerkat
The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography
Filming the Significant Other
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |