Captured: The Animal within Culture

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.

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.

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