MDSB01H3 Lecture 8: MDSB01-lecture 08 notes- Animal Stories: Critique and Speciesism
19 Nov 2016
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Last way harawy uses the image of the cyborg with pr0-organic an un-organic parts. Trying to draw together with different parts with people. Afro futurism and futuristic imagery and characters and aliens and androids using these images to explore racial inequality and possibilities for african americans in the future. Animals as stand ins for human and human differences. Lamar has 2 arguments: we can see a unique way in which non human animals are portrayed in animations. Why are they so popular in animated films across the board: speciesism. The use if the representation of different species of animals to stand in for different humansocial categories. Argues that animals are favoured in animations. Joy in movement: says that animated film enjoys interesting movements - found in animals. Plasmaticity: plasticity/elasticity, unusual stretchiness, the ability of animated film to portray entities as deforming and stretching and moving in a (cid:449)ay (cid:374)ot do(cid:374)"t i(cid:374) (cid:396)eal life, bending of characters.
