Pub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2024.2370696
Abhra Paul, Vidya Sarveswaran
Humans are the most numerous big animals on Earth, deciding the fate of other species. As the massive geological force in the current epoch, the Anthropocene, human-driven alterations of the Earth’...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2023.2247817
Brett Mills
‘This is the story of my death’. How would the shark in Jaws (Spielberg 1975) make sense of, and respond to, the representational forms and cultural norms they are entrapped within? Would they see ...
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Pub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2024.2326746
Michael Fuchs, Anna Marta Marini
This introduction to this special issue of Comparative American Studies outlines the significance of animals - in particular animal representations - to the US imagination. As the two national anim...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2024.2325272
Alison Fields
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, public displays of both humans and animals helped to reinforce a sense of natural order and progress in the rapidly developing United States....
十九世纪末二十世纪初,在快速发展的美国,人类和动物的公开展示有助于强化自然秩序和进步意识....。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-17DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2024.2327161
Thomas Cryer
Published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《美国比较研究国际期刊》(2024 年提前出版)
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Pub Date : 2024-02-27DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2023.2278371
Charlie Jeffries
The early years of gender studies in the US academy can be traced through their impact on zinesters, who parsed their interactions with these studies in their self-made and distributed publications...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-07DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2023.2301192
Samantha Baugus
Within high-profile RPGs, dogs (and other nonhuman animals) often cannot be petted. This state of affairs has been changing, though, in response to player demand. In this article, I argue that play...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-17DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2023.2291936
Kirsten Møllegaard
The literary trope of the shark has been exploited as a symbol of monstrosity in classic Western literature, from the great sea novels by Herman Melville, Jules Verne, and Ernest Hemingway to Peter...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2023.2277073
Nathan Scoll
Sometime early in the second decade of the 21st Century, many people began taking to their holiday Facebook statuses, dating app profiles and other social media to make would-be clever remarks abou...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1080/14775700.2023.2276581
Thomas Ruys Smith
Published in Comparative American Studies An International Journal (Vol. 20, No. 3-4, 2023)
发表于《美国比较研究国际期刊》(第 20 卷第 3-4 期,2023 年)
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