Major Genre: Adventure

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…

Alison Johnston
20th January 2023
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Dir. Jake Kasdan. Sony Pictures Releasing. 2017.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Dir. Jake Kasdan. Sony Pictures Releasing. 2017. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Jumanji-poster.jpg 1280 720 Alison Johnston Alison Johnston https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/81012d24f37ea246bbfaea54c2ee3858?s=96&d=mm&r=g 20th January 2023 6th March 2023

Trapped in a tropical jungle with wild animals and no allergy spray; what could possibly go wrong? Oh, and also, you are now in a different body and have to…

Kirsty Laverack
19th January 2023
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Song of the Sea. Dir. Tomm Moore. StudioCanal. 2014

Song of the Sea. Dir. Tomm Moore. StudioCanal. 2014 https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/possible-title.jpg 1920 1040 Kirsty Laverack Kirsty Laverack https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7c923c701e877b89dccd1bfc6f26ba7a?s=96&d=mm&r=g 19th January 2023 19th January 2023

Figure 1 – Film poster Song of the Sea is full of magic, mystery and mayhem. Ben, a ten year old Irish boy, discovers that his mute sister Saoirse is…

Catriona Keep
18th January 2023
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Porco Rosso. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli. 1992.

Porco Rosso. Dir. Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli. 1992. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/image-26.png 555 298 Catriona Keep Catriona Keep https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9acdfdc2366dcd9e0ee3931c12ae034f?s=96&d=mm&r=g 18th January 2023 19th January 2023

Porco Rosso follows a former fighter pilot who abandoned the Italian military, transformed into a pig, and becomes a bounty hunter that fights pirates. One day he meets American pilot…

Eve Bayliss
15th January 2023
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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…

Catriona Keep
13th January 2023
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Porco Rosso. Dir Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli. 1992.

Porco Rosso. Dir Hayao Miyazaki. Studio Ghibli. 1992. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Catriona Keep Catriona Keep https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9acdfdc2366dcd9e0ee3931c12ae034f?s=96&d=mm&r=g 13th January 2023 13th January 2023

The cinema scene in Porco Rosso tells us a lot about how stereotypes are assigned onto animals through media to serve specific agendas, in this case they are largely political.…

Louise Smith
8th January 2023
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The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, Dir.Jay Russell, Sony Pictures Releasing, 2007, U.S.

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, Dir.Jay Russell, Sony Pictures Releasing, 2007, U.S. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Louise Smith Louise Smith https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/994ccb66f6ec7d76b6bd19085150286d?s=96&d=mm&r=g 8th January 2023 8th January 2023

Figure 1: ‘The Surgeon’s Photograph’ of the Loch Ness Monster. A blurry, dark figure emerges out of the water. GETTY IMAGES [1] The filmmakers of The Water Horse: Legend of…