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The Preference for the Exotic in Wildlife Broadcast Film: Author: Fitzgibbons, Ryan Patrick; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Science and Natural History Filmmaking; Abstract: American wildlife broadcast film has exhibited a preference for exotic fauna, leaving much of North American wildlife underappreciated. The American preference for the exotic finds its roots in the early African hunting films of Cherry Kearton, John Hemment, and Martin Johnson. These films became manifestations of the Pristine, a conceptual realm of untouched wildness filled with aesthetically-pleasing megafauna. Since then, visions of the Pristine, through the exotic wildlife and landscape, have remained popular in American broadcast viewing, as seen in Animal Planet's programming. Exotic wil...; Download File | View full details