Peta Tait

Circus Bodies

Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the cultural identities that are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415329378
• ISBN-10: 041532937X
• Artikelnr.: 23184065

Autorenporträt

Peta Tait is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, Australia. She is author of Performing Emotions: Gender, Bodies, Spaces in Chekhov's Drama and Stanislavski's theatre (2002) as well as books on gender identity in Australian theatre, and editor of Body Show/s (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Aerial Bodies Chapter 1: Graceful Manliness, Unfeminine
Maidens and Erotic Gods Chapter 2: Unnatural Acts, Female Strongmen Chapter
3: Cross-Dressing and Female Muscular Drag Chapter 4: Gender Competition,
Camp Spectacles and Impossible Machismo Chapter 5: Androgyny to Queer
Violence: Cirque du Soleil, Archaos and Circus Oz Chapter 6: Ecstasy and
Visceral Flesh in Motion Glossary References Index