Wild and Dangerous Performances: Animals, Emotions, Circus By Peta Tait (Palgrave Macmillan 2012).
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Wild and Dangerous Performances: Animals, Emotions, Circus By Peta Tait (Palgrave Macmillan 2012).
Wild and Dangerous Performances: Animals, Emotions, Circus explores what happened when big cats roared on cue and elephants danced together in twentieth century performance. How do big cats and elephants perform? This analysis of trained acts in live circus and in cinema reveals how humans anthropomorphize animals with their emotions. Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards were performers who evoked fascination and awe, fear and excitement. They evoked theatrical emotions like human performers.
Animal performers were also caught up in scientific precepts post-Darwin and in opposition to animal performance.
*An inquiry into the controversial topic of performing animals in the circus.
*A unique study of animals and emotions
*An exploration of species in artificial proximity and how big cats were trained to ride trained horses and elephants.
