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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lockwood, Randall
• Fine, Aubrey H.
• Ng, Zenithson Y.
• Beck, Alan M.
• Peralta, Jose M.
• Mueller, Megan K.
• Mueller, Megan K
• Ng, Zenithson Y
• Peralta, Jose M
• Fine, Aubrey H
• Beck, Alan M

Titel

I'll Get You... and Your Little Dog Too: Animal Cruelty and Kindness in the Cinema over the Last Century

Ist Teil von

• The Routledge International Handbook of Human-Animal Interactions and Anthrozoology, 2024, p.690-703

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For more than a century, films have used the depiction of cruelty and kindness to animals as a way to help define characters and create stories that resonate with viewers. Many of the concepts used in this way have been validated by empirical research into human-animal relationships, while others remain to be explored. In the 1980s, law-enforcement interest in animal cruelty grew dramatically, in part fueled by the proliferation of research into the association between animal cruelty and interpersonal violence. The most famous early depiction of animal cruelty is Thomas Edison's Electrocuting an Elephant (1903). Evidence for the progression hypothesis is weaker, perhaps in part because reporting of and response to animal cruelty committed by younger offenders has, until recently, been rare so it has been more difficult to document early acts of cruelty. In film, the depiction of animal cruelty as part of a broader pattern of meanness and general deviance has been the most popular approach for decades. Perhaps the second most memorable cinema depiction of the animal cruelty-evil character connection comes in The Godfather. In addition to general deviance and criminality, research has linked animal cruelty to child abuse, domestic violence, and elder abuse.