Download or read book Wild and Dangerous Performances written by P. Tait and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.