In this episode Ankita Rathour and Lynda Korimboccus join Claudia to discuss the interconnections of film, tv, and animals. Together they touch on everything from the Peppa Pig paradox in children’s media to the shifting role of animals in Hindi cinema, nationalism and caste politics.

Date Recorded: 2 May 2025

Featured:

The Subaltern Gazes: Commentary on Amit Masurkar's Sherni by Ankita Rathour.
Pig-ignorant: The Peppa Pig Paradox. Investigating Contradictory Childhood Consumption by Lynda M Korimboccus
Animal representation on UK children’s television by Lynda M Korimboccus
Can the Subaltern Speak by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
From Symbolic to Agential: The Evolution of Natural Representation in Indian Eco-Sensitive Filmsby Rakesh Kumar Pankaj and Dibyakusum Ray
The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slaveryby Spiegel, Marjorie
Human supremacism: why are animal rights activists still the “orphans of the left”?by Will Kymlicka
When different is ambivalence: Strategic ignorance about meat consumptionby Marleen C. Onwezen and Cor N. van der Weele
Humane Jobs: A Political Economic Vision for Interspecies Solidarity and Human–Animal Wellbeing by Kendra Coulter
Advertising oppression: the reproduction of anthroparchy in UK children's and" family" television by Kate F. Stewart and Matthew Cole
Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell.
Animal Farm by George Orwell.
Mother Cow, Mother India by Yamini Narayanan
The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams
The Desi Gaze, a podcast by Ankita Rathour.
Tribe Animal Sanctuary
Peppa Pig
RRR (Rise, Roar, Revolt)
Tigress Sherni
Alvin and the Chimpmunks
Haathi Mere Saathi
The Elephant Whisperers
Matilda and the Brace Escape
Earthlings
Blackfish
Wicked
Azaad
Article 15
War Horse
Babe
The Last Pig
Deliverance (

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S8E8: Film and TV with Lynda Korimboccus and Ankita Rathour