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Antonio Franconi e il suo circo : la biografia di un friulano che ha creato il circo moderno / Anonimo francese dell'Ottocento [i.e. Edmond Denis de Manne]
Antonio Franconi e il suo circo : la biografia di un friulano che ha creato il circo moderno / Anonimo francese dell'Ottocento [i.e. Edmond Denis de Manne]
Autore Manne, Edmond Denis : de
Pubbl/distr/stampa Udine : Trapezio libri, 1983
Descrizione fisica 77 p. : ill. ; 30 cm
Disciplina 791.3
Collana Biografie ; 1
Soggetto topico Franconi, Antonio - Biografia
Franconi (Circo equestre) - Storia
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione ita
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991001927419707536
Manne, Edmond Denis : de  
Udine : Trapezio libri, 1983
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Arrivano i clowns : le piu belle "comiche" del circo / di Tristan Rémy
Arrivano i clowns : le piu belle "comiche" del circo / di Tristan Rémy
Autore Rémy, Tristan
Pubbl/distr/stampa Milano : Emme, [1981]
Descrizione fisica 294 p. ; 20 cm
Disciplina 791.3
Collana L'asino d'oro
Soggetto topico Clowns
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione ita
Record Nr. UNISALENTO-991001784259707536
Rémy, Tristan  
Milano : Emme, [1981]
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Circus and culture : a semiotic approach / Paul Bouissac
Circus and culture : a semiotic approach / Paul Bouissac
Autore BOUISSAC, Paul
Pubbl/distr/stampa Lanham ; New York ; London, : University Press of America, c1985
Descrizione fisica xiii, 206 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Disciplina 791.3(Spettacoli pubblici. Circhi)
Soggetto topico CULTURA POPOLARE - Studi
SEMIOTICA - Studi
CIRCHI - Studi
ISBN 08-19-14713-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Record Nr. UNIOR-UON00407323
BOUISSAC, Paul  
Lanham ; New York ; London, : University Press of America, c1985
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Circus as Multimodal Discourse [[electronic resource] ] : Performance, Meaning, and Ritual
Circus as Multimodal Discourse [[electronic resource] ] : Performance, Meaning, and Ritual
Autore Bouissac Paul
Pubbl/distr/stampa London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina 791.3
791.3014
Soggetto topico Circus -- Social aspects
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
Modality (Linguistics)
Multimedia communications
Performing arts -- Semiotics
Semiotics
Visual communication
Circus - Social aspects
Performing arts - Semiotics
Discourse analysis - Social aspects
Social Sciences
Recreation & Sports
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-283-70614-8
1-4411-0261-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Playing with Fire; 1 Circus Performances as Rituals: Participative Ethnography; Circus online; Circus in the field; The spectator as ethnographer; Circus as ritual; 2 The "Textility" of Circus Acts: Disentangling Cognition and Pleasure; Writing circus: From performance to text; Events and their verbal accounts; Scripts, skills, and algorithms: The birth of a circus act; Description and explanation; Disentangling meanings, emotions, and pleasure: Textility and cognitive malleability; 3 Magic in the Ring
Veils of illusionBelief and disbelief; The mechanisms of miracles and the logic of illusions; A double-edged skill; 4 Horses which Speak, Count, and Laugh; The cultured horse; An equine performance on record; A multimodal dialogic discourse; Themes and variations: A cowboy and his horse; Pragmatics of the "educated" horse act: A biosemiotic perspective; 5 Steeds and Symbols: Multimodal Metaphors; Circus horses: From the steppe to the ring; A semiotic perspective: Making sense of things; The social contract and the birth of the arts; Once upon a time: A play of nature and culture
The ascent of the horseTextualizing the horse; Equestrians as cultural heroes; 6 The Staging of Actions: Heroes, Antiheroes, and Animal Actors; A theory of action; The modalities of actions: From doing to making another do; Ironical discourse: A dog act in the semiotic square; 7 Circus Animals as Symbols, Actors, and Persons; In the company of animals; The representation of animals in cultures; Animal agencies: Legal and moral issues; A cultural paradigm shift : Animals as nonhuman persons; 8 Dancing with Tigers, Lying with Lions: Translating Biology into Art; Tigers in the wild
The fifth dimension of spaceFrom biology to art; The poetics and rhetoric of the cage act; The lion's anger; A master at work; A work of art; 9 Clowns at Work: A Sociocritical Discourse; Clowns unmasked; Clowns at work; Syntax and semantics of chaos: Herbert Marcuse at the circus; Power of the mask; What is a gag and how it works: A conversation; 10 The Imaginary Circus; Romancing the circus; The circus as a phantasm; The ascent of the clown; Circus mystics: The juggler and the funambulist; 11 Ideology and Politics in the Circus Ring; Poetics and politics of the body
Erotic circus: The tame and the wildIdeology, politics, and propaganda; The body politic in performance; 12 The Postanimal Circus; A cultural revolution: The animal liberation movement; The new circus: Human, humane, and humanitarian; Circus and subversion: From anticircus to counterculture and activism; The return of the animal?; Conclusion: Pleasures of the Circus: Attraction, Emotion, and Addiction; Truth and deception; The logic of attraction; Information, fear, and empathy; Games, rewards, and addiction; Performance, ritual, and meaning; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910462521603321
Bouissac Paul  
London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
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Circus as Multimodal Discourse [[electronic resource] ] : Performance, Meaning, and Ritual
Circus as Multimodal Discourse [[electronic resource] ] : Performance, Meaning, and Ritual
Autore Bouissac Paul
Pubbl/distr/stampa London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina 791.3
791.3014
Soggetto topico Circus -- Social aspects
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
Modality (Linguistics)
Multimedia communications
Performing arts -- Semiotics
Semiotics
Visual communication
Circus - Social aspects
Performing arts - Semiotics
Discourse analysis - Social aspects
Social Sciences
Recreation & Sports
ISBN 1-283-70614-8
1-4411-0261-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Playing with Fire; 1 Circus Performances as Rituals: Participative Ethnography; Circus online; Circus in the field; The spectator as ethnographer; Circus as ritual; 2 The "Textility" of Circus Acts: Disentangling Cognition and Pleasure; Writing circus: From performance to text; Events and their verbal accounts; Scripts, skills, and algorithms: The birth of a circus act; Description and explanation; Disentangling meanings, emotions, and pleasure: Textility and cognitive malleability; 3 Magic in the Ring
Veils of illusionBelief and disbelief; The mechanisms of miracles and the logic of illusions; A double-edged skill; 4 Horses which Speak, Count, and Laugh; The cultured horse; An equine performance on record; A multimodal dialogic discourse; Themes and variations: A cowboy and his horse; Pragmatics of the "educated" horse act: A biosemiotic perspective; 5 Steeds and Symbols: Multimodal Metaphors; Circus horses: From the steppe to the ring; A semiotic perspective: Making sense of things; The social contract and the birth of the arts; Once upon a time: A play of nature and culture
The ascent of the horseTextualizing the horse; Equestrians as cultural heroes; 6 The Staging of Actions: Heroes, Antiheroes, and Animal Actors; A theory of action; The modalities of actions: From doing to making another do; Ironical discourse: A dog act in the semiotic square; 7 Circus Animals as Symbols, Actors, and Persons; In the company of animals; The representation of animals in cultures; Animal agencies: Legal and moral issues; A cultural paradigm shift : Animals as nonhuman persons; 8 Dancing with Tigers, Lying with Lions: Translating Biology into Art; Tigers in the wild
The fifth dimension of spaceFrom biology to art; The poetics and rhetoric of the cage act; The lion's anger; A master at work; A work of art; 9 Clowns at Work: A Sociocritical Discourse; Clowns unmasked; Clowns at work; Syntax and semantics of chaos: Herbert Marcuse at the circus; Power of the mask; What is a gag and how it works: A conversation; 10 The Imaginary Circus; Romancing the circus; The circus as a phantasm; The ascent of the clown; Circus mystics: The juggler and the funambulist; 11 Ideology and Politics in the Circus Ring; Poetics and politics of the body
Erotic circus: The tame and the wildIdeology, politics, and propaganda; The body politic in performance; 12 The Postanimal Circus; A cultural revolution: The animal liberation movement; The new circus: Human, humane, and humanitarian; Circus and subversion: From anticircus to counterculture and activism; The return of the animal?; Conclusion: Pleasures of the Circus: Attraction, Emotion, and Addiction; Truth and deception; The logic of attraction; Information, fear, and empathy; Games, rewards, and addiction; Performance, ritual, and meaning; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910785948403321
Bouissac Paul  
London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
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Circus as Multimodal Discourse : Performance, Meaning, and Ritual
Circus as Multimodal Discourse : Performance, Meaning, and Ritual
Autore Bouissac Paul
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina 791.3
791.3014
Soggetto topico Circus -- Social aspects
Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
Modality (Linguistics)
Multimedia communications
Performing arts -- Semiotics
Semiotics
Visual communication
Circus - Social aspects
Performing arts - Semiotics
Discourse analysis - Social aspects
Social Sciences
Recreation & Sports
ISBN 1-283-70614-8
1-4411-0261-2
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction: Playing with Fire; 1 Circus Performances as Rituals: Participative Ethnography; Circus online; Circus in the field; The spectator as ethnographer; Circus as ritual; 2 The "Textility" of Circus Acts: Disentangling Cognition and Pleasure; Writing circus: From performance to text; Events and their verbal accounts; Scripts, skills, and algorithms: The birth of a circus act; Description and explanation; Disentangling meanings, emotions, and pleasure: Textility and cognitive malleability; 3 Magic in the Ring
Veils of illusionBelief and disbelief; The mechanisms of miracles and the logic of illusions; A double-edged skill; 4 Horses which Speak, Count, and Laugh; The cultured horse; An equine performance on record; A multimodal dialogic discourse; Themes and variations: A cowboy and his horse; Pragmatics of the "educated" horse act: A biosemiotic perspective; 5 Steeds and Symbols: Multimodal Metaphors; Circus horses: From the steppe to the ring; A semiotic perspective: Making sense of things; The social contract and the birth of the arts; Once upon a time: A play of nature and culture
The ascent of the horseTextualizing the horse; Equestrians as cultural heroes; 6 The Staging of Actions: Heroes, Antiheroes, and Animal Actors; A theory of action; The modalities of actions: From doing to making another do; Ironical discourse: A dog act in the semiotic square; 7 Circus Animals as Symbols, Actors, and Persons; In the company of animals; The representation of animals in cultures; Animal agencies: Legal and moral issues; A cultural paradigm shift : Animals as nonhuman persons; 8 Dancing with Tigers, Lying with Lions: Translating Biology into Art; Tigers in the wild
The fifth dimension of spaceFrom biology to art; The poetics and rhetoric of the cage act; The lion's anger; A master at work; A work of art; 9 Clowns at Work: A Sociocritical Discourse; Clowns unmasked; Clowns at work; Syntax and semantics of chaos: Herbert Marcuse at the circus; Power of the mask; What is a gag and how it works: A conversation; 10 The Imaginary Circus; Romancing the circus; The circus as a phantasm; The ascent of the clown; Circus mystics: The juggler and the funambulist; 11 Ideology and Politics in the Circus Ring; Poetics and politics of the body
Erotic circus: The tame and the wildIdeology, politics, and propaganda; The body politic in performance; 12 The Postanimal Circus; A cultural revolution: The animal liberation movement; The new circus: Human, humane, and humanitarian; Circus and subversion: From anticircus to counterculture and activism; The return of the animal?; Conclusion: Pleasures of the Circus: Attraction, Emotion, and Addiction; Truth and deception; The logic of attraction; Information, fear, and empathy; Games, rewards, and addiction; Performance, ritual, and meaning; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910813810603321
Bouissac Paul  
London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
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Circus life : performing and laboring under America's big top shows, 1830-1920 / / Micah D. Childress
Circus life : performing and laboring under America's big top shows, 1830-1920 / / Micah D. Childress
Autore Childress Micah D.
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Knoxville, Tennessee : , : The University of Tennessee Press, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (265 pages)
Disciplina 791.3
Collana Sports and Popular Culture Series
Soggetto topico Circus - Social aspects
Circus workers
Circus performers
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-62190-395-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Brian M. Ingrassia -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Circus Becomes Respectable: Accommodation and Change in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 2: The Biggest Day of the Year -- Chapter 3: Working in the Circus -- Chapter 4: Obstacles and Opportunities -- Chapter 5: Amusement Barons or Captains of Entertainment? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910788390703321
Childress Micah D.  
Knoxville, Tennessee : , : The University of Tennessee Press, , [2018]
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Circus life : performing and laboring under America's big top shows, 1830-1920 / / Micah D. Childress
Circus life : performing and laboring under America's big top shows, 1830-1920 / / Micah D. Childress
Autore Childress Micah D.
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Knoxville, Tennessee : , : The University of Tennessee Press, , [2018]
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (265 pages)
Disciplina 791.3
Collana Sports and Popular Culture Series
Soggetto topico Circus - Social aspects
Circus workers
Circus performers
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-62190-395-8
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Brian M. Ingrassia -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Circus Becomes Respectable: Accommodation and Change in the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 2: The Biggest Day of the Year -- Chapter 3: Working in the Circus -- Chapter 4: Obstacles and Opportunities -- Chapter 5: Amusement Barons or Captains of Entertainment? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910820215903321
Childress Micah D.  
Knoxville, Tennessee : , : The University of Tennessee Press, , [2018]
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Circus, Science and Technology : Dramatising Innovation / / edited by Anna-Sophie Jürgens
Circus, Science and Technology : Dramatising Innovation / / edited by Anna-Sophie Jürgens
Edizione [1st ed. 2020.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xx, 189 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina 791.3
301
Collana Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology
Soggetto topico Stage management
Theater—History
Theater
Performing arts
Technology and Stagecraft
Theatre History
Contemporary Theatre
Performing Arts
ISBN 3-030-43298-X
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. Chapter 1: Circus Matters: Engineering, Imagineering and Popular Stages of Technology: Introduction; Anna-Sophie Jürgens -- 2. Chapter 2: Engineers of Curiosity: the Barnum Era; Jane Goodall -- 3. Chapter 3: Unreal Limbs: Erin Ball and The Extended Body in Contemporary Circus; Katie Lavers and Jon Burtt, with Erin Ball -- 4. Chapter 4: Circus as Laboratory: Imagineering Legitimacy; Mark St Leon -- 5. Chapter 5: Circus and Electricity: Staging Connexions between Science and Popular Entertainments; Gillian Arrighi -- 6. Chapter 6: Technologies of Risk, Fear and Fun: Human and Nonhuman Circus Performance; Peta Tait -- 7. Chapter 7: The Circus and the Magic Lantern: A Portfolio of Hand-Painted Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides; Martyn Jolly and Elisa deCourcy -- 8. Chapter 8: The Circus and Technologies of Animation; Ruth Richards -- 9. Chapter 9: Engineering Circus Enchantment: Automagic Technology and Electrifying Performances in Fiction; Anna-Sophie Jürgens and Robert C. Williamson.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910483060103321
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020
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Circus: arts, life & sciences
Circus: arts, life & sciences
Pubbl/distr/stampa Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : Michigan Publishing, , 2022-
Disciplina 791.3
Soggetto topico Circus
Arts
Soggetto genere / forma Periodicals.
ISSN 2836-6611
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Periodico
Lingua di pubblicazione mul
Altri titoli varianti Circus: arts, life and sciences
CALS
Record Nr. UNISA-996566869703316
Ann Arbor, Michigan : , : Michigan Publishing, , 2022-
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