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.
- ISBN13 9781349713189
- Publish Date 8 October 2017 (first published 24 September 2016)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 1st ed. 2016
- Format Paperback
- Pages 290
- Language English