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"In 2008 a clip was posted on YouTube which became a worldwide sensation. The clip, known as the Christian the Lion reunion, showed an emotional reunion between two men and a lion. They had purchased the lion cub at Harrods in London, kept him as a pet, then rehomed him in Kenya on George Adamson's Kora Reserve. 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. As commodities trafficked for profit or spectacle, as subjects of scientific endeavour, the invisibility of animal capture and the suffering it invariably brings takes place in the context of a proliferation of representations of animals in all aspects of human culture. Leading scholars discuss films, novels, popular culture, performance and histories of animal capture and several of the essays provide compelling accounts of animal lives"--
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Animals and civilization, Lion, Animals in literature, Animals in motion pictures, Captive wild animals, Human-animal relationships, Animals in mass media, Animal rights movement, ART / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, NATURE / Animal Rights, NATURE / Endangered Species, PERFORMING ARTS / General, Animals, Literature, Mass media, Motion picturesEdition | Availability |
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Captured: The Animal within Culture
Jan 01, 2014, Palgrave Macmillan
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Captured: the Animal Within Culture
2013, Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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Captured: The Animal within Culture
Nov 29, 2013, Palgrave Macmillan
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