Circus as Multimodal Discourse : Performance, Meaning, and Ritual.

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bouissac, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Temas:
Circus > Social aspects.
Performing arts > Semiotics.
Discourse analysis > Social aspects.
Visual communication.
Multimedia communications.
Modality (Linguistics)
Semiotics.
Cirque > Aspect social.
Sémiotique et arts du spectacle.
Communication visuelle.
Réseaux multimédias.
Modalité (Linguistique)
PERFORMING ARTS > Circus.
Circus > Social aspects
Discourse analysis > Social aspects
Multimedia communications
Performing arts > Semiotics
Semiotics
Visual communication
Social Sciences.
Recreation & Sports.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Circus performances as rituals: participative ethnography
  • The textility of circus acts: disentangling cognition and pleasure
  • Magic in the ring
  • Horses which speak, count, and laugh
  • Steeds and symbols: multimodal metaphors
  • The staging of actions: heroes, anti-heroes, and animal actors
  • Circus animals as symbols, actors, and persons
  • Dancing with tigers, lying with lions: translating biology into art
  • Clowns at work: a socio-critical discourse
  • The imaginary circus
  • Ideology and politics in the circus ring
  • The post-animal circus.

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