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Making animals public : inside the ABC's natural history archive / Gay Hawkins and Ben Dibley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawkins, Gay, author.
- Dibley, Ben, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Natural History Unit.
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- Animals on television.
- Nature television programs--Australia.
- Nature television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Inside the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's natural history archive
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : Sydney University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Making Animals Public: television, animality andpolitical engagement focuses on the proliferation of animal content on televisionand how this has transformed how animals are known and encountered, generatingunique modes of televisual animality. The book examines the multiplicity ofpublic realities and knowledges that animals on TV have constituted: fromscientific objectivity, to the unique Australian environment, to controversialvictims of gross exploitation. Just as television has made animals public invery particular ways, it has also made new publics that have learnt to beaffected by them. Thanks to extraordinary access to the ABC's Natural Historyand general archives, the authors are able to investigate the dynamic relationbetween making animals public and making publics over time.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Approaching ABC animals: Mediation and mediatisation
- Capturing, provoking, inhabiting
- Animals as devices of the public
- Part One: Capturing
- Cages and cameras
- Marsupial capture/spectral beasts
- The Trail of the 'Roo
- Conclusion
- Captivating viewers
- Televisual animals: Remediating radio beasts and importing BBC animals
- Zoo Quest: Imperial interspecies intimacy
- The ABC animal and the emergence of environmental nationalism
- Dancing Orpheus: Observing the animal body
- Conclusion: The "properly observed" animal
- Part Two: Provoking
- Developing the natural history genre
- Mediating animals: Filming a natural history animal
- Accounting for natural history animals: Science and art
- Provoking entertaining animals
- Making-of documentaries
- Provoking realities: A brief conceptual foray
- Whooper swans at work
- Accounting for realities
- More-than-human publics: Provoking affective attunement
- Part Three: Inhabiting
- The Nature of Australia series
- Nationing natural history
- After nature, after animals
- Megafires and sense of planet
- Reef Live: Life as a media event
- References
- TV programs mentioned
- ABC documents
- Books, articles and press kits
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 1-74332-970-9
- 1-74332-969-5
- OCLC:
- 1435753379
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