Captured: The Animal Within Culture

1. Introduction
Melissa Boyde

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

3. The Scramble for Elephants: Exotic Animals and the Imperial Economy
John Simons

4. Christian the Lion: An Interview with Ace Bourke
Melissa Boyde

5. ‘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

6. Animal Factories: Exposing Sites of Capture
Yvette Watt

7. Albatrosses and Western Attitudes to Killing Wild Birds
Graham Barwell

8. Capturing the Songs of Humpback Whales
Denise Russell

9. The Dog and the Chameleon Poet
Anne Collett

10. What Lies Below: Cephalopods and Humans
Helen Tiffin

11. Caught: Sentimental, Decorative Kangaroo Identities in Popular Culture
Peta Tait

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Fine Arts, Literature, general, Sociology, general, Cultural Studies, Performing Arts, Bioethics