Moore, Alison
(2011)
Representations of laboratory animals in popular media forms.
In: Humanities Research Seminar, 16th Feb 2011, University of Lincoln.
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Abstract
Attitudes to animals are in part formed through engagement with popular culture and therefore we should pay attention to the potential of this domain for shaping animal lives. But can popular culture really do anything for the ‘laboratory’ animal? This paper explores the persistent and changing deployment of the laboratory animal in a range of humorous popular media (and cultural) texts, and suggests that its appearance in comedy could provide a useful means to reach an otherwise reluctant audience.
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