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Captured: The Animal within Culture

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Editors:
  1. Melissa Boyde

    1. Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Melissa Boyde
    Pages 1-8

  3. Verticality, Vertigo and Vulnerabilities: Giraffes in J. M. Ledgard’s Novel Giraffe and in the Handspring Puppet Company’s Play, Tall Horse

    • Wendy Woodward
    Pages 9-25

  4. The Scramble for Elephants: Exotic Animals and the Imperial Economy

    • John Simons
    Pages 26-42

  5. Christian the Lion: An Interview with Ace Bourke

    • Melissa Boyde
    Pages 43-59

  6. ‘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
    Pages 60-74

  7. Animal Factories: Exposing Sites of Capture

    • Yvette Watt
    Pages 75-83

  8. Albatrosses and Western Attitudes to Killing Wild Birds

    • Graham Barwell
    Pages 84-107

  9. Capturing the Songs of Humpback Whales

    • Denise Russell
    Pages 108-130

  10. The Dog and the Chameleon Poet

    • Anne Collett
    Pages 131-151

  11. What Lies Below: Cephalopods and Humans

    • Helen Tiffin
    Pages 152-174

  12. Caught: Sentimental, Decorative Kangaroo Identities in Popular Culture

    • Peta Tait
    Pages 175-194

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 195-199
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia

    Melissa Boyde

About the editor

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

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