Storytelling Apes

Pollock, Mary Sanders

doi:10.5325/j.ctv14gpcmg

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“…Similarly, Goodall (2015) claimed that watching footage of a chimpanzee grooming her infant would make viewers more likely to conserve chimpanzees and their habitats. In a similar vein, Pollock (2015) 10.1163/15685306-bja10102 | society & animals (2022) 1-23 expressed concerns that honest representations of primates (e.g., aggressive interactions among chimpanzees) could undermine conservation efforts by negatively impacting public opinion. The common belief of scholars about the power of film may be based on anecdotal evidence (Wright, 2010).…”

Section: The Impact Of Wildlife Documentariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Primate Documentaries: A Critical Analysis of Their History

Koenig

2022

Soc. Animals

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Primate nature documentaries have been popular with audiences since their inception in the early 1900s. Audiences trust primate documentaries, but scholars are concerned about how documentaries sometimes misrepresent primates. We provide an analysis of the history of primate documentaries, with a focus on how and why misrepresentation happens. We summarize why wildlife documentaries are important, and then we explain concerns over documentaries’ mischaracterization of nonhuman animals. Then, having viewed every available primate documentary (n = 210), we provide the first scholarly attempt to (a) provide a big-picture view by collating and describing the subgenres that can be used to characterize primate documentaries, and (b) describe the historical development of these subgenres, from early sensationalized films to modern large-budget productions. This history describes the chronological development of the diversity of primate documentary subgenres and explains the misrepresentation of primates as the result of filmmaker goals across that historical development.

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Section: The Impact Of Wildlife Documentariesmentioning

confidence: 99%