Was Blind But Now I See Animal Liberation Documentaries’ Deconstruction of Barriers to Witnessing Injustice

• Published in: Screening Nature p. 110
• Main Authors: Carrie Packwood Freeman, Scott Tulloch
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berghahn Books 15.11.2013
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Animal rights; Animals; Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Art criticism; Art theory; Arts; Attention; Behavioral sciences; Bioethics; Biological sciences; Biology; Bodies of water; Cetaceans; Cetology; Cognitive processes; Cognitive psychology; Cultural anthropology; Cultural studies; Documentary films; Dolphins; Earth sciences; Environmental ethics; Environmental philosophy; Environmental studies; Film criticism; Film genres; Film studies; Geography; Geomorphology; Government; Government agencies; Humans; Inlets; Intelligence services; Mammalogy; Mammals; Movies; Physical sciences; Political science; Primates; Psychology; Surveillance; Visual fixation; Zoology
• ISBN: 9781782382263; 1782382267

‘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 documentaryBehind 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