The Circus Has No Home
Author : Rupert Croft-Cooke
Publisher : [London] : Falcon Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Accipitridae
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Author : Rupert Croft-Cooke
Publisher : [London] : Falcon Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Accipitridae
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Author : Rupert Croft COOKE
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Page : 255 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 1950
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Author : Rupert Croft Cooke
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 1941
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Author : Lois Duncan
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780385306898
Eighty-one museum-quality photographs depicting circus performers, their families, the animals, and the circus crew complement a text that discusses the era of the traveling circus.
Author : Rupert Croft COOKE
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Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 1941
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Author : Paul Bouissac
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1441135758
Now available in paperback, this volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a method to analyze its performances as multimodal discourse. The book's fifteen chapters cover the range of circus specialties (magic, domestic and wild animal training, acrobatics, and clowning) and provide examples to show how cultural meaning is produced, extended and amplified by circus performances. Bouissac is one of the world's leading authorities on circus ethnography and semiotics and this work is grounded on research conducted over a 50 year span in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas. It concludes with a reflection on the potentially subversive power of this discourse and its contemporary use by activists. Throughout, it endeavours to develop an analytical approach that is mindful of the epistemological traps of both positivism and postmodernist license. It brings semiotics and ethnography to bear on the realm of the circus.
Author : Paul Bouissac
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1350044156
This book documents and discusses the meaning(s) of the creative process at play in the crafting and staging of circus acts. It highlights the experience of circus artists as their skills develop and mature into public performances that create aesthetic and emotional values in the modern economy of live spectacles. It scrutinizes the meaning that circus acts produce for the spectators and for the artists themselves who live this process from the inside. This is a book for those studying semiotics and wanting to see it applied to a real life milieu in accessible and passionate prose. The Meaning of the Circus is grounded on the personal experience of Professor Paul Bouissac as both a circus entrepreneur and a researcher with decades of primary material on the significance of past and contemporary circus acts. It is based on substantial accounts provided by many men and women who have agreed to share the challenges, joys, and anxieties of their life as artists. Personal and rigorous, it contributes to the hermeneutics of the circus arts by adding existential depth to the production and reception of their performances.
Author : Nathaniel Willis
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Children's periodicals
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Includes music.
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Home missions
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No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting.
Author : Patricia L. Bradley
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781572333116
The popularity of the circus in the United States reached its zenith in the early 1900s; as the century progressed, the circus gradually came to reflect traditional American values. In this book, Patricia L. Bradley analyzes the extent to which Warren's 1947 novella "The Circus in the Attic" and its use of the circus trope establishes a critical matrix for interpreting his fiction, poetry, essays, and literary criticism.