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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
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| London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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Bouissac Paul
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| London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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Bouissac Paul
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| London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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Childress Micah D.
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| Knoxville, Tennessee : , : The University of Tennessee Press, , [2018] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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 |
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Childress Micah D.
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| Knoxville, Tennessee : , : The University of Tennessee Press, , [2018] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The meaning of the circus : the communicative experience of cult, art, and awe / / Paul Bouissac
| The meaning of the circus : the communicative experience of cult, art, and awe / / Paul Bouissac |
| Autore | Bouissac Paul |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, NY : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Disciplina | 791.3 |
| Soggetto topico | Circus - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
1-350-04416-4
1-350-04415-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Like moths flying to a candle in the night -- 2. Ritual and sacrifice: the circus between cult and art -- 3. The Music is the Message -- 4. Flashback -- 5. Great expectations -- 6. The Ethnography of Memory -- 7. A Sense of Gravity -- 8. To laugh or not to laugh -- 9. Lives under siege -- 10. Where is home? The circus's endless Odyssey -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796722103321 |
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Bouissac Paul
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| London ; ; New York, NY : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The meaning of the circus : the communicative experience of cult, art, and awe / / Paul Bouissac
| The meaning of the circus : the communicative experience of cult, art, and awe / / Paul Bouissac |
| Autore | Bouissac Paul |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, NY : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Disciplina | 791.3 |
| Soggetto topico | Circus - Social aspects |
| ISBN |
1-350-04416-4
1-350-04415-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Like moths flying to a candle in the night -- 2. Ritual and sacrifice: the circus between cult and art -- 3. The Music is the Message -- 4. Flashback -- 5. Great expectations -- 6. The Ethnography of Memory -- 7. A Sense of Gravity -- 8. To laugh or not to laugh -- 9. Lives under siege -- 10. Where is home? The circus's endless Odyssey -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811402203321 |
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Bouissac Paul
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| London ; ; New York, NY : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Semiotics at the Circus / / Paul Bouissac
| Semiotics at the Circus / / Paul Bouissac |
| Autore | Bouissac Paul |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.3 |
| Collana | Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] |
| Soggetto topico |
Circus - Social aspects
Performing arts - Semiotics Performing arts - Audiences Visual communication |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-70651-9
9786612706516 3-11-021831-3 |
| Classificazione | ER 755 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. A semiotician at the circus -- Chapter 1. The production of circus space -- Chapter 2. The time of the circus. Cognitive and emotional dimensions of acrobatics and other circus acts -- Chapter 3. In what sense is a circus animal performing? -- Chapter 4. Horses' feathers: from tacit knowledge to circus metaphors -- Chapter 5. Circus and cycles -- Chapter 6. The pyramid and the wheel: the visual discourse of circus acrobatics -- Chapter 7. The logic of clown faces -- Chapter 8. Incident, accident, failure: life and death at the circus -- Chapter 9. There's no business like show business: the marketing of performance -- Chapter 10. The researcher as spectator: the pragmatics of circus performances -- Conclusion. Circus in perspective -- Backmatter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455722903321 |
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Bouissac Paul
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| Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Semiotics at the Circus / / Paul Bouissac
| Semiotics at the Circus / / Paul Bouissac |
| Autore | Bouissac Paul |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.3 |
| Collana | Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] |
| Soggetto topico |
Circus - Social aspects
Performing arts - Semiotics Performing arts - Audiences Visual communication |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Communication
Cultural Studies Performing Arts Pragmatics Semiotics |
| ISBN |
1-282-70651-9
9786612706516 3-11-021831-3 |
| Classificazione | ER 755 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. A semiotician at the circus -- Chapter 1. The production of circus space -- Chapter 2. The time of the circus. Cognitive and emotional dimensions of acrobatics and other circus acts -- Chapter 3. In what sense is a circus animal performing? -- Chapter 4. Horses' feathers: from tacit knowledge to circus metaphors -- Chapter 5. Circus and cycles -- Chapter 6. The pyramid and the wheel: the visual discourse of circus acrobatics -- Chapter 7. The logic of clown faces -- Chapter 8. Incident, accident, failure: life and death at the circus -- Chapter 9. There's no business like show business: the marketing of performance -- Chapter 10. The researcher as spectator: the pragmatics of circus performances -- Conclusion. Circus in perspective -- Backmatter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780737103321 |
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Bouissac Paul
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| Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Semiotics at the circus / / by Paul Bouissac
| Semiotics at the circus / / by Paul Bouissac |
| Autore | Bouissac Paul |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina | 791.3 |
| Collana | Semiotics, communication and cognition |
| Soggetto topico |
Circus - Social aspects
Performing arts - Semiotics Performing arts - Audiences Visual communication |
| ISBN |
1-282-70651-9
9786612706516 3-11-021831-3 |
| Classificazione | ER 755 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. A semiotician at the circus -- Chapter 1. The production of circus space -- Chapter 2. The time of the circus. Cognitive and emotional dimensions of acrobatics and other circus acts -- Chapter 3. In what sense is a circus animal performing? -- Chapter 4. Horses' feathers: from tacit knowledge to circus metaphors -- Chapter 5. Circus and cycles -- Chapter 6. The pyramid and the wheel: the visual discourse of circus acrobatics -- Chapter 7. The logic of clown faces -- Chapter 8. Incident, accident, failure: life and death at the circus -- Chapter 9. There's no business like show business: the marketing of performance -- Chapter 10. The researcher as spectator: the pragmatics of circus performances -- Conclusion. Circus in perspective -- Backmatter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814526603321 |
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Bouissac Paul
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| Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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