Main description:

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 sets out to rectify this lacuna.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Concepts and Theoretical Underpinning2.1 Animal Rights and Animal Welfare2.2 Ecofeminism2.3 Media and Animal Rights2.4 Post-Anthropocentrism
3. Cruelty to Animals in Films: A Brief History3.1 The Celebration of Cruelty3.2 Regulatory Sops to Overcome Cruelty
4. Animal Rights in the Arts
5. Animal Rights in Film5.1 Introduction5.2 Documentaries5.3 Narrative Films
6. Manifestos Across the Board6.1 Introduction6.2 Animal Rights Manifestos6.3 Film Manifestos
7. A Farmed Animal Rights Manifesto (FARM) for Film
8. FARM as Manifested in Animal Rights Films
9. Conclusion