The iAnimal Film Series: Activating Empathy Through Virtual Reality. Issue 1 (1st June 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The iAnimal Film Series: Activating Empathy Through Virtual Reality. Issue 1 (1st June 2021)
- Main Title:
- The iAnimal Film Series
- Authors:
- Cecil, Holly
- Abstract:
- Abstract: This article explores the innovative use of virtual reality (VR) technology in nonfiction documentary film formats by animal-advocacy organizations. I examine the potential of the VR medium to communicate the living and dying environments of factory-farmed animals, and to generate viewer empathy with the animal subjects in their short, commodified lives from birth to slaughterhouse. I present a case study of the iAnimal short film series produced by Animal Equality, which made its public debut at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Employing a critical animal studies framework, I engage Kathryn Gillespie's work on witnessing of the nonhuman condition as a method of academic research, and apply to it the embodied experience of virtual witnessing through virtual realty.
- Is Part Of:
- Screen bodies. Volume 6:Issue 1(2021)
- Journal:
- Screen bodies
- Issue:
- Volume 6:Issue 1(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 6, Issue 1 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0006-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 44
- Page End:
- 61
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-01
- Subjects:
- activism -- animal -- critical animal studies -- documentary -- empathy -- factory farming -- virtual reality -- VR
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- https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/screen-bodies/screen-bodies-overview.xml ↗
- DOI:
- 10.3167/screen.2021.060105 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2374-7552
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- Legaldeposit
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