The Meaning Of The Circus
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The Meaning Of The Circus
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Author : Paul Bouissac
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
The Meaning Of The Circus written by Paul Bouissac and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Circus categories.
Circus Dictionary
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Author : Geoff Stevens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Circus Dictionary written by Geoff Stevens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Circus categories.
The Meaning Of The Circus
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Author : Paul Bouissac
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-08-23
The Meaning Of The Circus written by Paul Bouissac and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-23 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Rings Of Desire
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Author : Helen Stoddart
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2000
Rings Of Desire written by Helen Stoddart and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Performing Arts categories.
The circus has been both one of the most influential forms of international popular entertainment and yet at the same time remains almost entirely absent from academic studies of popular theatrical forms. This book offers readers an introduction to the cultural history of the circus and gives an account of the dominant characteristics of the circus's aesthetic practices and relates these to the sometimes precarious developments, changes and variations in its economic organization, architecture and social status. The book goes on to outline the particular challenges that this essentially live, dangerous and body-centred form presents to literary and film representation and does so through the particular examples of works by Charles Dickens, Federico Fellini and Wim Wenders. This wide-ranging and accessible book offers ways of thinking about the meaning and significance of the circus as a specifically modern form of art and entertainment.
360 Circus
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
360 Circus written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with ART categories.
This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus' role within society. This book consists of a collection of articles from renowned circus researchers, junior researchers, and artists. It also provides the core statements and discussions of the conference UpSideDown--Circus and Space in a graphic recording format. Hence, it allows a clear entry into the field of circus research and emphasizes the diversity of approaches that are well balanced between theoretical and artistic point of views. This book will be of great interestto students and scholars of circus studies, emerging disciples of circus and performance.
Circus As Multimodal Discourse
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Author : Paul Bouissac
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Circus As Multimodal Discourse written by Paul Bouissac and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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The End Of The Circus
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Author : Paul Bouissac
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-08-12
The End Of The Circus written by Paul Bouissac and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book analyses two features of the traditional circus that have come under increasing attack since the mid-20th century: the use of wild animals in performance and the act of clowning. Positioning this socio-cultural change within the broader perspective of evolutionary semiotics, renowned circus expert Paul Bouissac examines the decline of the traditional circus and its transformation into a purely acrobatic spectacle. The End of the Circus draws on Bouissac's extensive ethnographic research, including previously unpublished material on the training of wild animals and clown make-up, to chart the origins of the circus in Gypsy culture and the drastic change in contemporary Western attitudes on ethical grounds. It scrutinizes the emergence of the new form of circus, with its focus on acrobatics and the meaning of the body, showing how acrobatic techniques have been appropriated from traditional Gypsy heritage and brought into the fold of mainstream popular entertainment. Questioning the survival of the new circus and the likely resurgence of its traditional forms, this book showcases Bouissac's innovative approach to semiotics and marks the culmination of his ground-breaking work on the circus.
Twentieth Century Circus People
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Author : John M. Turner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Twentieth Century Circus People written by John M. Turner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Circus categories.
Olympians Of The Sawdust Circle
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Author : William Lawrence Slout
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Olympians Of The Sawdust Circle written by William Lawrence Slout and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Performing Arts categories.
The culmination of more than thirty years of research, Olympians of the Sawdust Circle is an attempt to identify every major and minor player in the American circus world of the nineteenth century. This A-Z guide lists: surname, given name, dates of birth and death (if known), type of entertainment (and function) with which the individual was associated, and the companies and dates by whom the person was employed. Every researcher and library interested in American circus history will need this seminal guide. An absolutely astonishing piece of scholarship.
Semiotics At The Circus
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Author : Paul Bouissac
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-06-17
Semiotics At The Circus written by Paul Bouissac and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. This book confronts a challenging object, the circus, and endeavors to describe its performances in ways that explain how circus acts produce meaning and cause a deep emotional involvement for their audiences. The approach is not top-down, such as would be a method that would dogmatically apply a particular theory to fully explain the phenomena in terms of this theory alone. Epistemologically, this book is an example of the bottom-up strategy, which consists of considering first the objects and heuristically calling upon methodological resources in a broad theoretical array to come to grips with the problems that are encountered. Any circus act is a complex event that has cognitive and emotional dimensions. It is also a part of a history and an institution, and cannot be abstracted from its cultural and sociological contexts. Thus the range of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches must include structural semiotics, biosemiotics, pragmatics, socio-semiotics, cultural anthropology, the cognitive sciences, the psychology and sociology of emotions, to name only the most important. But the ultimate focus of this book is to enable the readers to better understand the meaning of circus performances and to appreciate the skills and creativity of this traditional popular art, which constantly renews itself from generation to generation.