The zoo and screen media : images of exhibition and encounter / Michael Lawrence, Karen Lury, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lawrence, Michael, 1973- editor.

Lury, Karen, editor.

Series:

Screening spaces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoos in motion pictures.

Zoo animals--In motion pictures.

Zoo animals.

Zoos--In mass media.

Zoos.

Zoo animals--In mass media.

Zoos--Social aspects.

Captive wild animals--Social aspects.

Captive wild animals.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xxii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

Contents:

Part I. Archives. 1. 'A constellation of incongruities' : the amateur film and the trip to the zoo / Karen Lury ; 2. Capturing the beasts : zoo film and interspecies pasts / Andrew J.P. Flack ; 3. The human zoo and its double / Katherine Groo ; 4. ZooTube : streaming animal life / Andrew Burke

Part II. Hollywood. 5. Animal empire : thrill and legitimation at William Selig's zoo and jungle pictures / Sabine Haenni ; 6. A tour of Zoo in Budapest / Jacob Smith ; 7. "Out there, in the world" : representations of the zoo and other spaces in the Madagascar trilogy / Brett Mills

Part III. Families and children. 8. Placing children at the zoo : the zoo as mythical landscape of childhood / Pamela Robertson Wojcik ; 9. Family matters : tales of tigers and tapirs at Dublin Zoo / Gwenda Young ; 10. Photographs and families in We bought a zoo and Our zoo / Michael Lawrence

Part IV. Experiments. 11. László Moholy-Nagy at the London Zoo : animal enclosures and the unleashed camera / Richard Hornsey ; 12. Dead funny : laughter, life and death in Philibert's Nénette and Un animal, des animaux / Laura McMahon ; 13. 'The wild inside' : an interview with Phillip Warnell on Ming of Harlem / Rhiannon Harries.

Notes:

"This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1137543426

9781137543424

OCLC:

934194510