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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. ‘A Constellation of Incongruities’: The Amateur Film and the Trip to the Zoo

Author : Karen Lury

Published in: The Zoo and Screen Media

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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A chimpanzee tea party presented to its audience a constellation of incongruities: animal/human, child/adult, proscribed behavior/prescribed behavior, wild/tame, improvised/scripted performance. Although simple in execution, the chimps’ tea party was a complex entertainment.(Allen et al. 1994: 25)
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Metadata
Title
‘A Constellation of Incongruities’: The Amateur Film and the Trip to the Zoo
Author
Karen Lury
Copyright Year
2016
Book
The Zoo and Screen Media

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-54342-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-53561-0

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53561-0_1