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

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The zoo and screen media

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Michael Lawrence, Karen Lury, editors

Screening spaces

images of exhibition and encounter

Examining how animals are exhibited to and encountered by audiences via the close relationship between the zoo and moving image media, contributors consider diverse instances in which the moving image has been deployed to document or dramatise the zoo's own regimes of representation., 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

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