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Circus as Multimodal Discourse

Release on 2012-10-112012-10-11 by Paul Bouissac
Circus as Multimodal Discourse

Author: Paul Bouissac

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9781441102614

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 288

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Now available in paperback, 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 with a reflection on the potentially subversive power of this discourse and its contemporary use by activists. Throughout, it endeavours to develop an analytical approach that is mindful of the epistemological traps of both positivism and postmodernist license. It brings semiotics and ethnography to bear on the realm of the circus.
Language Arts & Disciplines
Circus as Multimodal Discourse
Language: en
Pages: 288

Circus as Multimodal Discourse

Authors: Paul Bouissac
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-11 - Publisher: A&C Black

Now available in paperback, 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
Circus as Multimodel Discourse. Performance, Meaning and Ritual
Language: en
Pages: 288

Circus as Multimodel Discourse. Performance, Meaning and Ritual

Authors: Paul Bouissac
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

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
Horror Comes Home
Language: en
Pages: 279

Horror Comes Home

Authors: Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-12 - Publisher: McFarland

Home, we are taught from childhood, is safe. Home is a refuge that keeps the monsters out--until it isn't. This collection of new essays focuses on genre horror movies in which the home is central to the narrative, whether as refuge, prison, menace or supernatural battleground. The contributors explore the
Performing Digital
Language: en
Pages: 280

Performing Digital

Authors: David Carlin, Laurene Vaughan
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-03 - Publisher: Routledge

Digital technologies have transformed archives in every area of their form and function, and as technologies mature so does their capacity to change our understanding and experience of material and performative cultural production. There has been an exponential explosion in the production and consumption of video online and yet there
The Routledge Circus Studies Reader
Language: en
Pages: 626

The Routledge Circus Studies Reader

Authors: Peta Tait, Katie Lavers
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-11 - Publisher: Routledge

The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings together the work of over 30 scholars in this discipline, including Janet Davis, Helen Stoddart and Peta Tait, to highlight and address the field’s key historical, critical and theoretical issues. It is

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