Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Lienemann Direct Response and Scholarly Promotions Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu A vivid examination of nature television‹and what it reveals about human society. WATCHING WILDLIFE Cynthia Chris University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2006 ISBN 0-8166-4546-9 | hardcover | $60.00 ISBN 0-8166-4547-7 | paperback | $19.95 Watching Wildlife traces the history of the wildlife genre from precinematic, colonial visual culture to its contemporary status as flagship programming on global television. Cynthia Chris's analysis of shows such as Crocodile Hunter and film and television history like the launch of Animal Planet, points out how documentary images of animals present prevailing ideologies about human gender, sexuality, and race. ³In this rich, fascinating account of why wildlife films should be understood as human cultural artifacts, Cynthia Chris demonstrates how ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality have found comfortable surroundings in the feigned objectivity of the nature film.² ‹Nigel Rothfels For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book¹s webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/chris_watching.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html