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1 online resource (225 pages) |
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| Summary |
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 w. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Circus performances as rituals: participative ethnography -- The textility of circus acts: disentangling cognition and pleasure -- Magic in the ring -- Horses which speak, count, and laugh -- Steeds and symbols: multimodal metaphors -- The staging of actions: heroes, anti-heroes, and animal actors -- Circus animals as symbols, actors, and persons -- Dancing with tigers, lying with lions: translating biology into art -- Clowns at work: a socio-critical discourse -- The imaginary circus -- Ideology and politics in the circus ring -- The post-animal circus. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Circus -- Social aspects.
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Circus -- Social aspects. |
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Circus. |
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Performing arts -- Semiotics.
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Performing arts -- Semiotics. |
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Discourse analysis -- Social aspects.
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Discourse analysis -- Social aspects. |
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Visual communication.
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Visual communication. |
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Multimedia communications.
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Multimedia communications. |
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Modality (Linguistics)
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Modality (Linguistics) |
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Semiotics.
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Semiotics. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781441125637 |
| ISBN |
9781441102614 |
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1441102612 |
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9781441125637 (hardback) |
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1441125639 (hardback) |
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9781441135759 (ebook) |
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1441135758 (ebook) |
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