Animal: Spider – ZooScope

Louise Smith
20th January 2023
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Kubo and the Two Strings. Dir. Travis Knight. Laika. 2016

Kubo and the Two Strings. Dir. Travis Knight. Laika. 2016 https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/paper-bird-wings-2.png 1454 620 Louise Smith Louise Smith https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/994ccb66f6ec7d76b6bd19085150286d?s=96&d=mm&r=g 20th January 2023 6th March 2023

Figure 1: Kubo lifted in the air by wings made of origami birds. Kubo and the Two Strings follows a boy whose life is made even more extraordinary when a…

Spirited Away. Dir Hayao Miyazaki. Toho Company Ltd. 2001.

Spirited Away. Dir Hayao Miyazaki. Toho Company Ltd. 2001. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Image-1-4.webp 560 360 Eve Bayliss Eve Bayliss https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/857a2c1bc1d52ca8ed0b1f33f8dc46df?s=96&d=mm&r=g 15th January 2023 15th January 2023

Miyazaki’s 2001 Spirited Away, blurs the binary of human, animal, mythology, and spirit. Each character has its own version of this intersectionality, creating different presentations of ontology that in turn…

Arachnophobia, Dir. Frank Marshall, Hollywood Pictures, Franklin Entertainment, 1990.

Arachnophobia, Dir. Frank Marshall, Hollywood Pictures, Franklin Entertainment, 1990. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Luke Donley Luke Donley https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/063bea3dd53ccd68ced18825567264ee?s=96&d=mm&r=g 18th January 2022 18th January 2022

In one of the most suspenseful scenes in Arachnophobia, a young woman goes for a shower in the bathroom but is ambushed by one of the spider offspring in a…