The Zoo and Screen Media Images of Exhibition and Encounter

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 Selig’s 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 Mythical Landscape of Childhood  Pamela Robertson Wocjik.-.Chapter Nine: Family Matters: Tales of Tigers and Tapirs at Dublin Zoo  Gwenda Young.-.Chapter Ten: Photographs and Families in We Bought a Zoo and Our Zoo Michael Lawrence.-.Section Four: Experiments.-.Chapter Eleven: Lázló Moholy-Nagy at the London Zoo: Animal Enclosures and the Unleashed Camera Richard Hornsey.-.Chapter Twelve: Dead Funny: Laughter, Life and Death in Philibert’s Nénette and Un Animal, des animaux Laura McMahon.-.Chapter Thirteen: ‘The Wild Inside’: An Interview with Phillip Warnell on Ming of Harlem Rhiannon Harries.

Michael Lawrence is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Sabu and the co-editor, with Laura McMahon, of Animal Life and the Moving Image.

Karen Lury is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK and the author of The Child in Film: Tears, Fears and Fairytales. She is an editor of the international film and television studies journal, Screen.