March of the Penguins: Animal Rights or Christian Right?

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dc.contributor.authorHodge, Jarrah
dc.date.accessioned2007-09-24T21:18:18Z
dc.date.available2007-09-24T21:18:18Z
dc.date.issued2007-01
dc.description.abstractTaking 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.en
dc.identifier.citationHodge, Jarrah (2007). March of the Penguins: Animal Rights or Christian Right? Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal, 1(2).en
dc.identifier.issn1718-8482
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/472
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherLethbridge Undergraduate Research Journalen
dc.publisher.facultyUniversity of British Columbiaen
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of British Columbiaen
dc.subjectPenguins -- Antarcticaen
dc.titleMarch of the Penguins: Animal Rights or Christian Right?en
dc.typeArticleen
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