The Routledge circus studies reader
Tipologia Bibliografia/Fonte
Data cronica
- 2016
Descrizione
- Introduction: circus persectives, precedents an presents - Peta Tait and Katie Lavers
PART 1
Perspective
Aesthetics
1. Aesthetics - Helen Stoddart;
2. The staging of actions: heros, antiheros and animal actors - Paul Bouissac;
3. An epic of new circus - Martine Maleval, transleted by Jane Mullett;
4. The man in the red coat: management in the circus - Ron Beadle and David Könyöt;
The clown
5. Clowns and clown play - Louis Peacock;
6. Diminutive catastrophe: clown's play
Cross-arts
7. Circus music: the eye of the ear - Kim Baston;
8. Art and androgyny: the aerialist - Naomi Ritter
9. When the future was now: Archaos within a theatre tradition - Roberta Mock
Gender and sexuality
10. Respectable female nudity - Janet M. Davis;
11. A queer circus: Amok in New York - Mark Sussman;
Race
12. Celebrated, then implied but finally denied: the erosion of Aboriginal identity in Australian circus, 1850s to 1950s - Mark St Leon;
Sideshows
13. Freaks of culture: institutions, publics and the subjects of ethnographic kwnoledge -Rachel Adams
14. The Jim Rose Circus Side Show: representing the postmodern body in pain - Carrie Sandahl;
Child performers
15. Sensational imbalance: the child acrobat and the mid-Victorians - Brenda Assael;
Spectators
16. Ecstasy and visceral flesh in motion
17. Marginal body: the British acrobat in reference to sport - Yoram S. Carmeli
PART II
Precedents
Origins
18. The circus and nature in late Georgian England - Marius Kwint;
19. The American circus - Don B. Wilmeth
20. P.T. Barnum: the legend and the men - A.H. Saxon
21. Notes on the Mexican-American circus - Nicolas Kanellos
22 The circus and modernity: a commitment to the the newer and the newest - Gillian Arrighi
Politics
23. Bending the body for China: the uses of acrobatics in Sino-US diplomacy during the Cold War - Tracy Ying Zhang;
24. When pigs could fly and bears could dance: a peculiar institution - Miriam Neirick;
25. A contemporary history of circus arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina: the post-dictatorial resurgence and revaluation of circus as a popular art - Julieta Infantino;
Physical exceptionalism
26. To reach che clouds: my high-wire walk between the Twin Towers - Philippe Petit;
27. Thus spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by R.J. Hollingdale
Animal Performers
28. Why circuses are unsuited to elephants - Lori Alward;
29. View from the big top: why elephants belong in North American circuses
Part III
Presents
30. Female circus performers and art: the shift to creative art forma and its implications - Magali Sizorn;
31. The resilient body in social circus: Father Jesus Silva, Boris Cyrulnik and Peter A. Levine - Katie Lavers;
32. Risk, danger and other paradoxes in circus and Circus Oz parody - Peta Tait;
33. The Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas: an American strip-tease - Louis Patrick Leroux;
34. Contemporary Nordic circus: introduction to the art form - Tomi Purovaara;
35. Contemporary circus research in Québec: building and negotiating an emerging interdisciplinary field - Louis Patrick Leroux.
Luogo di edizione
- Abingdon
ISBN
- 9781138125353
Paese
- GB
Lingua
- ENG Inglese
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