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Farmed Animals on Film

A Manifesto for a New Ethic

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Authors:
  1. Stephen Marcus Finn

    1. Centurion, South Africa

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  • Explores how to foster the rights of farmed animals on film
  • Includes chapters by academics and animal advocates
  • Follows a cross-disciplinary approach drawing on several traditions

Part of the book series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series (PMAES)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Stephen Marcus Finn
    Pages 1-21

  3. Concepts and Theoretical Underpinning

    • Stephen Marcus Finn
    Pages 23-46

  4. From Cruelty to Compassion

    • Stephen Marcus Finn
    Pages 47-63

  5. Animal Rights and Documentaries

    • Stephen Marcus Finn
    Pages 65-126

  6. Animal Rights and Narrative Films

    • Stephen Marcus Finn
    Pages 127-171

  7. A Farmed Animal Rights Manifesto for Film

    • Stephen Marcus Finn
    Pages 173-200

  8. Conclusion

    • Stephen Marcus Finn
    Pages 201-213

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 215-231
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About this book

This book aims to show how film can increase awareness of the plight of farmed animals without exploiting them.  Much has been written on the rights of animals, be they in the wild or circuses, hunted, experimented on, used for entertainment, or slaughtered and consumed. However, there has been little that has examined in any detail the filming of farmed animals, and nothing on a declaration of rights for such animals, thus leaving them in a limbo of neglect. Stephen Marcus Finn offers a manifesto on how to foster the rights of farmed animals in filming and sets out to rectify this lacuna.

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"In this incisive and timely survey, Stephen Marcus Finn surveys a broad range of films about farmed animals with a keen ethical focus on how they serve to help or harm the lives of those who are caught up in the industries of carnivory.  Finn breaks new ground in his demonstration of how ubiquitously our habits and values are shaped by a provocative canon of feature, documentary, and animated films ranging from Okja to Babe, Chicken Run to Fowl Play, The Cove to Death on a Factory Farm.  Reading Farmed Animals on Film: A Manifesto for a New Ethic is like attending a keenly curated film festival, and readers will want to follow up by actually watching all these films and thinking about them through Finn’s lens."

­­—Randy Malamud, Regents’ Professor of English, Georgia State University, author of Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity

"Stephen Marcus Finn’s book is a comprehensive, insightful, andthorough analysis of over 30 films, and the power of cinema to tell stories.  Besides thorough analyses of the films-as-text, Finn offers what much research and publishing does not: action steps.  Once our consciousness is raised, what can we do?  We are told in a well-written, accessible and interesting book that should be required reading for anyone who cares about animals."
—Debra Merskin, Professor Emerita, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centurion, South Africa

    Stephen Marcus Finn

About the author

Stephen Marcus Finn is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pretoria.  He is an animal rights activist, a novelist, and playwright whose writing concentrates on social outsiders and the oppressed.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Farmed Animals on Film

  • Book Subtitle: A Manifesto for a New Ethic

  • Authors: Stephen Marcus Finn

  • Series Title: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23832-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23831-4Published: 04 March 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-23834-5Published: 05 March 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-23832-1Published: 03 March 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6672

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6680

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 231

  • Topics: Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Screen Studies

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