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
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Screening Spaces Series Editor Pamela Robertson Wojcik Department of Film, Television, and Theatre University of Notre Dame Chicago, USA
Screening Spaces is a series dedicated to showcasing interdisciplinary books that explore the multiple and various intersections of space, place, and screen cultures.
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Michael Lawrence • Karen Lury Editors
The Zoo and Screen Media Images of Exhibition and Encounter
Editors Michael Lawrence School of Media, Film and Music University of Sussex Brighton, UK
Karen Lury School of Culture and Creative Arts University of Glasgow Glasgow, UK
Screening Spaces ISBN 978-1-137-54342-4 ISBN 978-1-137-53561-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53561-0
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INTRODUCTION: IMAGES OF EXHIBITION AND ENCOUNTER
The zoo, like the cinema, is a space designed with exhibition in mind.1 The history and the diversity of media images that exploit the zoo and its animals are unsurprisingly extensive—from the earliest films of the Lumière brothers (such as Lion. London Zoological Garden, 1895) to the first YouTube video (‘Me at the zoo’ was uploaded at 8:27 p.m. on Saturday 23 April 2005 by the site’s cofounder Jawed Karim).2 The zoo appears in over a century of audio-visual imagery, which continues into the twentyfirst century with 24-hour data streaming provided by ‘zoo-cams’ now a familiar aspect of many zoos’ on-going promotional activities. In ‘Why Look at Animals?’ (1977) John Berger reminds us: ‘Public zoos came into existence at the beginning of the period which was to see the disappearance of animals
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