Michael Lawrence is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Sabu (BFI Publishing, 2014) and the co-editor, with Laura McMahon, of Animal Life and the Moving Image (BFI Publishing, 2015), and, with Karen Lury, of The Zoo and Screen Media: Images of Exhibition and Encounter (2016) and, with Rachel Tavenor, of Global Humanitarianism and Media Culture (2019).