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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Robb, David, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 43.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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