Pig(s) – ZooScope

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…

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.…

Sophie Anderson
28th December 2022
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Babe (1995) directed by Chris Noonan

Babe (1995) directed by Chris Noonan https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Sophie Anderson Sophie Anderson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2bb5bbd18a323a128e7c58c4ebe694a9?s=96&d=mm&r=g 28th December 2022 10th February 2023

The 1995 edition of Babe directed by Chris Noonan presents Babe the pig to be defined by the type of relationship he has with humans. The relationship in this film…

Eve Pullen
3rd February 2022
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Taxidermia (György Pálfi, 2006, Amor Far Filmproduktion).

Taxidermia (György Pálfi, 2006, Amor Far Filmproduktion). https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/MV5BMjU2MzEwODYzMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjkzMjg3Mg@@._V1_.jpg 700 302 Eve Pullen Eve Pullen https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/2133cf72579aeb6819144699f7ac12f5?s=96&d=mm&r=g 3rd February 2022 3rd February 2022

Hungarian cinema leaves us feeling stuffed! Figure A – Lajoska Balatony surrounded by stuffed animals. Taxidermia (György Pálfi, 2006, Amor Far Filmproduktion). Pálfi’s 2006 body horror Taxidermia, follows the story…

Ben Cole
20th January 2022
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Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!. Dir. By. Peter Lord. Columbia Pictures. 2012.

Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!. Dir. By. Peter Lord. Columbia Pictures. 2012. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Ben Cole Ben Cole https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8b56010303c3bc561a8eca6b871dd8bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g 20th January 2022 12th April 2022

Figure 1-The Pirate Captain and his dodo comrade Polly embrace Charles Darwin. Aardman never shy away from the ludicrous. So when a crew of incompetent pirates endeavour for protagonist The…

Ben Cole
14th January 2022
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The Deer Hunter. Dir. Michael Cimino. EMI. 1978.

The Deer Hunter. Dir. Michael Cimino. EMI. 1978. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Ben Cole Ben Cole https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/8b56010303c3bc561a8eca6b871dd8bb?s=96&d=mm&r=g 14th January 2022 16th January 2022

Figure 1: Death of the deer from the first hunt. The Deer Hunter (1978). Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter explores the impact of the Vietnam War on Americans, depicting protagonist…

Lois Jones
5th January 2022
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The Simpsons Movie. Dir. David Silverman. 20th Century Fox. 2007.

The Simpsons Movie. Dir. David Silverman. 20th Century Fox. 2007. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Lois Jones Lois Jones https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a77232b69ddc25f8e3079e4e739ef3e6?s=96&d=mm&r=g 5th January 2022 5th January 2022

Why does everything I whip leave me?– Homer Simpson, The Simpsons Movie The Simpsons Movie – Spider-pig dressed up as Harry Plopper The Simpsons Movie is characterised by imprisonment vs…

Athena Solomon Berhane
5th February 2021
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The Platform (El Hoyo). Dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. Festival Films & Netflix. 2019

The Platform (El Hoyo). Dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. Festival Films & Netflix. 2019 https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Athena Solomon Berhane Athena Solomon Berhane https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/45253d034e9dd3fe74e4418bfa6962a4?s=96&d=mm&r=g 5th February 2021 17th March 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNMhRiyraxE&ab_channel=WatchTheFrame%3F Of course, it is odd to gaze from social isolation into absolute claustrophobia while still in a lockdown: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s twisted dystopian Sci-Fi thriller El Hoyo (in international release…

Samuel Ross
21st January 2019
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Carnage. Dir. Simon Amstell. BBC. 2017.

Carnage. Dir. Simon Amstell. BBC. 2017. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Samuel Ross Samuel Ross https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c6263209787d0cb095bc63e9dc6863e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g 21st January 2019 25th May 2021

What would the world be like if everybody was vegan? According to Simon Amstell’s vision of the future in Carnage, it’s a peaceful utopia in which the young vegans of tomorrow…

William Murray
15th January 2019
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Mary and the Witch’s Flower. Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Toho. 2017.

Mary and the Witch’s Flower. Dir. Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Toho. 2017. https://zooscope.group.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/themes/crocal/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 William Murray William Murray https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d14fdc50cdbb3ac3ee83ee77fcf03fd0?s=96&d=mm&r=g 15th January 2019 25th May 2021

Mary and the Witch’s Flower is a 2017 animated film, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi and produced by Studio Ponoc (founded by the former lead film producer at Studio Ghibli). The…