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Review: Paul Wells, The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. 192 pp. ISBN: 0813544157 (pbk)

Review: Paul Wells, The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers... Reviews Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5(3) 375 –381 Reviews © The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1746847710386442 anm.sagepub.com Paul Wells, The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. 192 pp. ISBN: 0813544157 (pbk) Paul Wells, in his study The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture (2009), seeks to establish both a critical dialogue concerning the presence of animals in animation, and a frame- work to enable further theoretical and philosophical discussion regarding their creation. Given that this represents something of a developing field within animation studies, if not film studies more generally, Wells usefully engages with anthropological and zoological debate in an effort to pro- vide the most comprehensive response possible. The Animated Bestiary opens with a brief overview of how animality has been constructed and represented within the medium of animation thus far. Wells writes: I see animated characters in the first instance as phenomena and, consequently, able to carry a diversity of representational positions. At one and the same time, such characters can be beasts and humans, or neither; can prompt issues about gender, race and ethnicity, generation, and identity, or not; and can operate innocently or subversively, or as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

Review: Paul Wells, The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. 192 pp. ISBN: 0813544157 (pbk)

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Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Volume 5 (3): 4 – Nov 1, 2010
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Reviews Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 5(3) 375 –381 Reviews © The Author(s) 2010 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1746847710386442 anm.sagepub.com Paul Wells, The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2009. 192 pp. ISBN: 0813544157 (pbk) Paul Wells, in his study The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture (2009), seeks to establish both a critical dialogue concerning the presence of animals in animation, and a frame- work to enable further theoretical and philosophical discussion regarding their creation. Given that this represents something of a developing field within animation studies, if not film studies more generally, Wells usefully engages with anthropological and zoological debate in an effort to pro- vide the most comprehensive response possible. The Animated Bestiary opens with a brief overview of how animality has been constructed and represented within the medium of animation thus far. Wells writes: I see animated characters in the first instance as phenomena and, consequently, able to carry a diversity of representational positions. At one and the same time, such characters can be beasts and humans, or neither; can prompt issues about gender, race and ethnicity, generation, and identity, or not; and can operate innocently or subversively, or as

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