Zoo and Screen Media

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.

• .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.