Animal Advocacy Documentaries in the Twenty-first Century

Animal Advocacy Documentaries in the Twenty-first Century is the first monograph dedicated exclusively to the study of this subgenre.

The book explores how the plasticity of nonfiction film engages with nonhuman otherness and with the rhetorical discourses of advocates and activists, while simultaneously reaffirming its claims to truth. It examines how documentary mechanisms associated with form and content are deployed by filmmakers to represent nonhuman animals as subjects deserving of mor...