March of the Penguins: Animal Rights or Christian Right?
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Date
2007-01
Authors
Hodge, Jarrah
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Publisher
Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal
Abstract
Taking an animal-rights feminist approach, this paper explores how the
2005 film The March of the Penguins has been used in the United States
as a tool to reinforce values of the Christian right. Analyzing the role of the
documentary form's perceived objectivity, the author demonstrates how
The March of the Penguins' anthropomorphization of its subjects denies
penguins' subjectivity and turns them into little more than mascots for
theories of intelligent design and life beginning at conception, as well as
heterosexuality as natural. Finally, the paper looks at how the film refuses
to acknowledge its own complicity and the complicity of its viewers in the
destruction of the emperor penguins' habitat due to climate change.
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Penguins -- Antarctica
Citation
Hodge, Jarrah (2007). March of the Penguins: Animal Rights or Christian Right? Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal, 1(2).