The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this emerging field. It collects work by over 30 scholars in this discipline into 3 sections, Perspectives, Precedents and Presents, which approach the history, current issues, and future of circus performance. The chapters, grouped by theme, present a range of approaches to circus studies. Classic accounts of performance by Phillippe Petit and Nietzsche appear alongside recent scholarship in the field. Edited by two scholars rooted in the world of performance, The Routledge Circus Studies Reader is an essential and stimulating resource for this evolving discipline.…mehr
The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this emerging field. It collects work by over 30 scholars in this discipline into 3 sections, Perspectives, Precedents and Presents, which approach the history, current issues, and future of circus performance. The chapters, grouped by theme, present a range of approaches to circus studies. Classic accounts of performance by Phillippe Petit and Nietzsche appear alongside recent scholarship in the field. Edited by two scholars rooted in the world of performance, The Routledge Circus Studies Reader is an essential and stimulating resource for this evolving discipline.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Peta Tait is chair of Theatre and Drama at LaTrobe University, Australia. Her previous publications include Circus Bodies: Cultural identity in aerial performance (2005) and Wild and Dangerous Performances: Animals, emotions, circus (2012) Katie Lavers is a director and producer of inter-media circus, as co-founder and director of Skadada circus company.
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List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: circus perspectives, precedents and presents /PETA TAIT AND KATIE LAVERS PART I Perspectives Aesthetics 1 Aesthetics /HELEN STODDART 2 The staging of actions: heroes, antiheroes and animal actors /PAUL BOUISSAC 3 An epic of new circus /MARTINE MALEVAL, translated 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 /LOUISE PEACOCK 6 Diminutive catastrophe: clown's play /MAGGI PHILLIPS 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 knowledge /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 /PETA TAIT 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 man /A.H. SAXON 21 Notes on the Mexican American circus /NICOLÁS KANELLOS 22 The circus and modernity: a commitment to '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 the 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 /DENNIS SCHMITT PART III Presents 30 Female circus performers and art: the shift to creative art forms 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 Selected Bibliography Index.
List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: circus perspectives, precedents and presents /PETA TAIT AND KATIE LAVERS PART I Perspectives Aesthetics 1 Aesthetics /HELEN STODDART 2 The staging of actions: heroes, antiheroes and animal actors /PAUL BOUISSAC 3 An epic of new circus /MARTINE MALEVAL, translated 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 /LOUISE PEACOCK 6 Diminutive catastrophe: clown's play /MAGGI PHILLIPS 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 knowledge /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 /PETA TAIT 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 man /A.H. SAXON 21 Notes on the Mexican American circus /NICOLÁS KANELLOS 22 The circus and modernity: a commitment to '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 the 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 /DENNIS SCHMITT PART III Presents 30 Female circus performers and art: the shift to creative art forms 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 Selected Bibliography Index.
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