WEEK 10 -- MAR 25

Popular Movies about Wildlife: the mid-twentieth century

6:30-8:00 LECTURE: E. Pullins: The fictional wildlife movie -

The "teaching" vs. "entertaining" debate
Introduction to popular culture representation of wildlife (Disney phenomenon)
Trends of genre and narrative by decade in popular wildlife movies (from the 30's to the 60's)

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SCREENING:
"Defining the Blue Chip Documentary"
Living Desert (1953) 20 min.

"Disney's Wildlife Pop Feature"
Flipper (1964, 1996) 20 min.

"Bleed-through to reality"
Born Free (1966) 20 min.
Free Willy (1993)

8:00-8:30 ACTIVITY: group discussion related to last week's reading of Chapters 5 and 7 from Reel Nature. Click here to see the activity sheet for this part of class, dowloaded as a MS Word document.

CNN article on sexually aggressive dolphin, and intervention by Flipper's trainer, June 4, 2002

San Diego Earth Times on Flipper connection to dolphin-safe tuna, 1996.

CNN article on Keiko, Sept. 4, 2002

ABC article on Keiko, Jan. 24, 2003

Keiko Foundation

Born Free Foundation

History of Born Free Foundation

ACTIVITY DUE APR 1: Two readings:
1. REVIEW Reel Nature, Chapter 3, pp. 59-84.
2. Behavior (Chapter 6), In Introduction to Wildlife and Fisheries, pp. 123-140.

ACTIVITY DUE APR 1: Prepare an essay addressing questions related to your readings on animal behavior. Your answers will be collected after discussion on Apr. 1.

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