Asset Details
Do you wish to reserve the book?
After the Thylacine: In Pursuit of Cinematic and Literary Improvised Encounters with the Extinct
Hey, we have placed the reservation for you!
By the way, why not check out events that you can attend while you pick your title.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place the reservation. Kindly try again later.
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
After the Thylacine: In Pursuit of Cinematic and Literary Improvised Encounters with the Extinct
Do you wish to request the book?
After the Thylacine: In Pursuit of Cinematic and Literary Improvised Encounters with the Extinct
Please be aware that the book you have requested cannot be checked out. If you would like to checkout this book, you can reserve another copy
We have requested the book for you!
Your request is successful and it will be processed during the Library working hours. Please check the status of your request in My Requests.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place your request. Kindly try again later.
Journal Article
After the Thylacine: In Pursuit of Cinematic and Literary Improvised Encounters with the Extinct
2018
Overview
[...]I turn to contemporary efforts to attest to the thylacine, analysing Julia Leigh's (1999) novel The Hunter and its film adaptation, also titled The Hunter (Dir. Daniel Nettheim, Australia, 2011), through the prism of improvisation as a necessary component of ethical witnessing.The archive formed of their remains incarnating a substantial disavowal of loss.12 The International Thylacine Specimen Database (ITSD), with its catalogue of skins, skeletons, skulls, soft tissue and mounts, materials that are held in over a hundred collections spread across over twenty countries, details this archive of body parts.Truganini (also Trugernanner and Trukanini), historically (yet erroneously) thought by some to be the last full-blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian, was shocked by the treatment of William Lanne's body after his death and voiced concern that a museum would also want to take possession of her body when she died.Lanne, popularly viewed at the time as the last male Aboriginal Tasmanian, was dismembered with the aim of using his body for \"scientific purposes\" and body parts (his head) were stolen to this end.14 After her death, Truganini was initially buried in a cemetery but her remains were later exhumed in the interests of science.
Publisher
Liminalities
