Circus bodies : cultural identity in aerial performance / / Peta Tait |
Autore | Tait Peta <1953-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon [England] ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
Disciplina | 796.47 |
Soggetto topico | Acrobatics - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-134-33120-7
1-134-33121-5 1-280-24469-0 9786610244690 0-203-39130-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : aerial bodies -- Graceful manliness, unfeminine maidens, and erotic gods -- Unnatural acts, female strongmen -- Cross-dressing and female muscular drag -- Gender competition, camp spectacles, and impossible machismo -- Androgyny to queer violence : Cirque du Soleil, Archaos and Circus Oz -- Ecstasy and visceral flesh in motion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818729203321 |
Tait Peta <1953-> | ||
Abingdon [England] ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Fighting nature : travelling menageries, animal acts and war shows / / Peta Tait |
Autore | Tait Peta <1953-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sydney, Australia : , : Sydney University Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (279 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 791.8023 |
Collana | Animal Publics |
Soggetto topico |
Animals in the performing arts - Social aspects
Human-animal relationships - 19th century Exotic animals - Social aspects Animals and civilization - 19th century Animal welfare - Social aspects - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-74332-431-6
1-74332-500-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910213854203321 |
Tait Peta <1953-> | ||
Sydney, Australia : , : Sydney University Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Forms of emotion : human to nonhuman in drama, theatre and contemporary performance / / Peta Tait |
Autore | Tait Peta <1953-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 pages) |
Disciplina | 792.019 |
Collana | Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Performing arts - Psychological aspects
Emotions - Psychological aspects Animal psychology |
ISBN |
1-00-312483-6
1-000-46436-9 1-003-12483-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter summaries -- Framing the emotions, emotional feeling, mood and affect -- Performing is not feeling that emotion -- 1. Affect theory and performance intention -- Distinctions in performance -- Feeling divided -- Affect currents -- Contested intentions -- Live - in theory -- Impersonal affect and personal feeling -- Presence and transmission -- Resistance -- Formless affect and aesthetic form -- 2. Judging pity, fear and humanness -- Pity and fear in action -- Fear of shame -- Opposition shocks -- Wonder and catharsis -- Mimetic natures -- Towards compassion -- Fear and animalness -- 3. Appraising emotional feeling -- Talk of feeling -- Navigating obstruction -- Substitute passions -- Appraisal of emotional feeling -- Ugly metaphor -- Inexplicable feeling -- Cruel structures of colonized feeling -- 4. Performing moods, tears and bodily phenomena -- Theatrical exchange -- Modernist convergence -- Acting an inner self -- Imagined spaces of longing and happiness -- Doing bodily affect -- Performing freedom -- Unifying aesthetic moods -- 5. Political belief and social cognition of emotions -- Contesting courage -- Acting science and the brain-body -- Trauma's affect -- Unifying empathy -- Theatre's emotional economy -- Emotional feeling as belief -- 6. En/Acting diverse emotional freedoms -- Rule-breaking paradox -- Love's force fields -- Human right to emotional feeling -- Politics of fear -- Rage against postemotional denial -- Theatrical freedoms -- 7. Animals and anthropocentric emotionalism -- Comic surrogates -- Tragic symbols -- Sensory body insensitivity -- Performing emotional connections -- 8. Enveloping the nonhuman: Contemporary indigenous performance -- Collaborating traditions.
Continuities in storytelling -- Bodily perceiving movement -- Unity in Bangarra's Dark Emu -- Enveloping affect and emotional movement -- Feeling knowledge and nonhuman time -- 9. Prosodies of affect and emotional climates -- Walking, trusting -- Weather worlds -- Motivating -- Breathing -- Sharing -- Conclusion: Emotional freedom in performance -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910774781503321 |
Tait Peta <1953-> | ||
London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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