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What do circus performances communicate? They are rich in extreme skills and clever staging. They trigger strong emotions. They make beautiful sense. This book, which is grounded in the personal circus experience of the author, uses semiotics, pragmatics, and cultural studies to explain why we are i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bouissac, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2010.
Colección:Semiotics, communication and cognition ; 3.
Temas:
Circus > Social aspects.
Performing arts > Semiotics.
Performing arts > Audiences.
Visual communication.
Cirque > Aspect social.
Sémiotique et arts du spectacle.
Arts du spectacle > Publics.
Communication visuelle.
PERFORMING ARTS > Circus.
Zirkus
Semiotik
Social Sciences.
Recreation & Sports.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a semiotician at the circus
  • The production of circus space
  • The time of the circus. Cognitive and emotional dimensions of acrobatics and other circus acts
  • In what sense is a circus animal performing?
  • Horses' feathers: from tacit knowledge to circus metaphors
  • Circus and cycles
  • The pyramid and the wheel: the visual discourse of circus acrobatics
  • The logic of clown faces
  • Incident, accident, failure: life and death at the circus
  • There's no business like show business: the marketing of performance
  • The researcher as spectator: the pragmatics of circus performances
  • Conclusion: circus in perspective.

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