Wild and Dangerous Performances: Animals, Emotions, Circus

By Peta Tait

Book Overview

Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards evoke fascination and awe, fear and excitement. This book analyzes trained acts in twentieth-century live circus and cinema, reveals how humans anthropomorphize animals with their emotions, and interrogates the notion that animals embody a phenomenology of emotions and feelings in culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349319619
• ISBN13: 9781349319619
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"