Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment have sometimes worked together to create a spectacle of onscreen alchemy. The films discussed are an eclectic group, ranging from early silent comedies to animated, 21st century examples.
Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment have sometimes worked together to create a spectacle of onscreen alchemy. The films discussed are an eclectic group, ranging from early silent comedies to animated, 21st century examples.
Teresa Cutler-Broyles teaches film and cultural studies in the cinematic arts, architecture, and freshman learning communities departments at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and creative nonfiction at the Umbra Institute in Italy. She writes fiction, travel, popular culture and nonfiction, and has been published in numerous academic volumes on subjects ranging from Star Trek to belly dance.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Re)Producing the Circus: Defining Circus Cinema (P.A. Wilder) The "Universal Soul" of the American Circus at Mid-Century (David Blanke) Spectrality and Spectatorship: Heterotopic Doubling in Cinematic Circuses (Whitney S. May) The Normal Abnormal: The Case of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (Lisann Anders( Horror Movies, Horror Bodies: Blurring the Freak Body in Cinema (Jessica L. Williams) The Spectacle of Sensation in British Film: Circus of Horrors, Berserk! and Vampire Circus (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns) After the Glitter Fades: Analyzing Ingmar Bergman's Cinematic Representation of Circus Life (Kylo-Patrick R. Hart) Dumbo and the Circus of Childhood (Michael Charlton) Problematic Participants and Circus Ethics: The Human/Nonhuman Concurrence of Jacob and Rosie in Water for Elephants (Rachel L. Carazo) Under the (Bi)g Top (Ayal C. Prouser) Liminal Spaces and Identity in MirrorMask (Teresa Cutler-Broyles) About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Re)Producing the Circus: Defining Circus Cinema (P.A. Wilder) The "Universal Soul" of the American Circus at Mid-Century (David Blanke) Spectrality and Spectatorship: Heterotopic Doubling in Cinematic Circuses (Whitney S. May) The Normal Abnormal: The Case of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (Lisann Anders( Horror Movies, Horror Bodies: Blurring the Freak Body in Cinema (Jessica L. Williams) The Spectacle of Sensation in British Film: Circus of Horrors, Berserk! and Vampire Circus (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns) After the Glitter Fades: Analyzing Ingmar Bergman's Cinematic Representation of Circus Life (Kylo-Patrick R. Hart) Dumbo and the Circus of Childhood (Michael Charlton) Problematic Participants and Circus Ethics: The Human/Nonhuman Concurrence of Jacob and Rosie in Water for Elephants (Rachel L. Carazo) Under the (Bi)g Top (Ayal C. Prouser) Liminal Spaces and Identity in MirrorMask (Teresa Cutler-Broyles) About the Contributors Index
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