The Zoo and Screen Media Images of Exhibition and Encounter [Hardcover]

This book is the first critical anthology to examine the controversial history of the zoo by focusing on its close relationship with screen media histories and technologies. Individual chapters address the representation of zoological spaces in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema, documentary and animation, amateur and avant-garde film, popular television and online media. The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter provides a new map of twentieth-century human-animal relations by exploring how the zoo, that modern apparatus for presenting living animals to human audiences, has itself been represented across a diverse range of moving image media. 

.Introduction: Images of Exhibition and Encounter Michael Lawrence and Karen Lury.-

.Section One: Archives.-

.Chapter One: A Constellation of Incongruities: The Amateur Film and the Trip to the Zoo Karen Lury.-

.Chapter Two: Capturing the Beasts: Zoo Film and Interspecies Pasts Andy Flack.-

.Chapter Three: The Human Zoo and Its Double Katherine Groo.-

.Chapter Four: ZooTube: Streaming Animal Life Andrew Burke.-

.Section Two: Hollywood.-

.Chapter Five: Animal Empire: Thrill and Legitimation in William Seligs Zoo and Jungle Pictures Sabine Haenni.-

.Chapter Six: A Tour of Zoo in Budapest Jacob Smith.-

.Chapter Seven: Out There, In the World: Representations of the Zoo and Other Spaces in the Madagascar Trilogy Brett Mills.-

.Section Three: Families and Children.-

.Chapter Eight: Placing Children at the Zoo: The Zoo as Mythicalc-