Open AccessSacrificing Steve: How I Killed the Crocodile Hunter
Author(s) -
Luke Carman
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v16i2.1699
Subject(s) - crocodile , legend , project commissioning , mythology , identity (music) , relation (database) , embodied cognition , sociology , publishing , focus (optics) , art history , art , history , media studies , aesthetics , literature , philosophy , epistemology , ecology , database , computer science , biology , physics , optics
Bob Hodge and Vijay Mishra argue that the complex issues of illegitimacy at the core of Australian identity are repressed through a continual process of cyclical silencing, where traces of a shameful past are exorcised by a focus on images of a mythologised ‘legend’, embodied in characters such as 'The Man from Snowy River'. This article explores such a 'schizophrenic' cycle in relation to the life, death and resurrection of Steve 'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin