Captured: The Animal Within Culture

2014. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-33049-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3845 g

In 2008 the youtube video documenting the emotional reunion between two men and Christian the Lion became a worldwide sensation. Key themes of the essays in Captured: the Animal within Culture are encapsulated in Christian's story: the implications of the physical and cultural capture of animals.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyde, M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors INTRODUCTION; Melissa Boyde 1. Verticality, Vertigo and Vulnerabilities: Giraffes in J.M. Ledgard's Novel Giraffe and in the Handspring Puppet Company's Play, Tall Horse; Wendy Woodward 2. The Scramble for Elephants: Exotic Animals and the Imperial Economy; John Simons 3. Christian the Lion: An Interview with Ace Bourke; Melissa Boyde 4. 'Mrs Boss! We gotta get those fat cheeky bullocks into that big bloody metal ship!': Live Export as Romantic Backdrop in Baz Luhrmann's Australia; Melissa Boyde 5. Animal Factories: Exposing Sites of Capture; Yvette Watt 6. Albatrosses and Western Attitudes to Killing Wild Birds; Graham Barwell 7. Capturing the Songs of Humpback Whales; Denise Russell 8. The Dog and the Chameleon Poet; Anne Collett 9. What Lies Below: Cephalopods and Humans; Helen Tiffin 10. Caught: Sentimental, Decorative Kangaroo Identities in Popular Culture; Peta Tait

Über Autor(innen)

Graham Barwell, University of Wollongong, Australia
Anthony 'Ace' Bourke, independent art curator and writer
Melissa Boyde, University of Wollongong, Australia
Anne Collett, University of Wollongong, Australia
Denise Russell, University of Wollongong, Australia
John Simons, Macquarie University, Australia
Peta Tait, La Trobe University, Australia
Helen Tiffin, University of Wollongong, Australia
Yvette Watt, University of Tasmania, Australia
Wendy Woodward, University of the Western Cape, South Africa