Clowns, fools and picaros : popular forms in theatre, fiction and film /
"By its very nature the clown, as represented in art, is an interdisciplinary phenomenon. In whichever artform it appears - fiction, drama, film, photography or fine art - it carries the symbolic association of its usage in popular culture, be it ritual festivities, street theatre or circus. Th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2007.
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Colección: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 43. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Clowns, Fools and Picaros; Contents; Introduction; Where The Antic Sits; Modern Tragicomedy and the Fool; The Postmodern Theatre Clown; Nietzsche and the Praise of Masks; Clowning Around at the Limits of Representation: On Fools, Fetishes and Bruce Nauman's Clown Torture; An American Circus: the Lynch Victim as Clown; The Court Jester in Nigerian Drama; "Fratello Arlecchino": Clowns, Kings, and Bombs in Bali; Scaramouche: The Mask and the Millenium.; The Cinema of Masks: Commedia dell'Arte and Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach
- From Nestroy to Wenzel & Mensching: carnivalesque revolutionaries in the German and Austrian theatrical traditionKarolos Koun, Karaghiozis and The Birds: Aristophanes as Popular Theatre; The Clown as Social Critic: Kerouac's Vision; Picaresque Narratology: Lazarillo de Tormes and Edgar Hilsenrath's Der Nazi und der Friseur; Notes on Contributors