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“Out There, in the World”: Representations of the Zoo and Other Spaces in the Madagascar Trilogy

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Mills, B. (2016). “Out There, in the World”: Representations of the Zoo and Other Spaces in the Madagascar Trilogy. In: Lawrence, M., Lury, K. (eds) The Zoo and Screen Media. Screening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53561-0_7

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