Was Blind But Now I See Animal Liberation Documentaries’ Deconstruction of Barriers to Witnessing Injustice
‘You better hope the anti-vivisection people don’t get a hold of this film’, laughs a laboratory worker as she videotapes herself tormenting a scared monkey during shock treatments – a video that prophetically ends up in the activist documentary Behind the Mask (2006). This is just one of dozens of...
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| Published in | Screening Nature p. 110 |
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| Main Authors | , |
| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Berghahn Books
01.11.2013
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| Edition | NED - New edition, 1 |
| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | ‘You better hope the anti-vivisection people don’t get a hold of this film’, laughs a laboratory worker as she videotapes herself tormenting a scared monkey during shock treatments – a video that prophetically ends up in the activist documentary Behind the Mask (2006). This is just one of dozens of examples of video footage that industries never meant to see the light of day, but which documentarians critically showcase for public scrutiny. While some footage in animal liberation documentaries was created by animal-exploitative industries as inhouse training or private research videos, most documentations must be filmed by activists themselves via covert |
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| ISBN: | 9781782382263 1782382267 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781800732957-009 |