A libertação animal e antropomorfismo nas animações do estúdio DreamWorks: uma análise dos filmes A Fuga das Galinhas, Os Sem-Floresta e Spirit

Abstract

This monograph consists of the analysis of animations that have animal liberation as their theme and its main objective is to investigate how this theme is exposed more specifically in the films Chicken Run, Over the Hedge and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, produced by the DreamWorks Animation studio, through a bibliographic and documental review. For this, we gathered researches that discuss animal rights in animated cinema and critically analyze the aforementioned films in order to understand how anthropomorphization influences the representation of animals. The question we wish to answer here is: Why do animated films, from the XXI century onwards, frequently bring up the debate about animal rights? in the sense of finding out whether this is the result of changes in society or in the media. Based on this, we were able to verify that the animal representation in animation cinema says more about ourselves than about the animals themselves, bringing social discussions by metaphorizing and anthropomorphizing animals instead of paying attention to the controversial human-animal relationship.