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Exploiting the archive: and the animals came in two by two, 16mm, CD‐ROM and BetaSp
Author(s) -
Davies Gail
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.1999.tb00170.x
Subject(s) - commodification , exhibition , unit (ring theory) , cd rom , wildlife , natural history , computer science , art , history , visual arts , world wide web , ecology , biology , economy , operating system , psychology , mathematics education , economics
Summary Using an account of the construction and subsequent exploitation of the film archive at the BBC's Natural History Unit, this paper explores the ways in which animals are embedded in the different cultures of care, control and commodification in the zoo and the wildlife film‐making unit. Network analysis is used to account for the similarities and tensions between these forms of animal exhibition, as revealed in the electronic zoo at Wildscreen World.