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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
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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-9910955462003321
Bouissac Paul  
London, : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
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Performance analysis : an introductory coursebook / / edited by Colin Counsell and Laurie Wolf
Performance analysis : an introductory coursebook / / edited by Colin Counsell and Laurie Wolf
Pubbl/distr/stampa London : , : Routledge, , 2001
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (265 p.)
Disciplina 791.014
791/.01/4
Altri autori (Persone) CounsellColin <1956->
WolfLaurie
Soggetto topico Body, Human
Gender identity
Gender identity - Political aspects
Human body
Performing arts
Performing arts - Political aspects
Performing arts - Semiotics
Political aspects
Semiotics
Human body - Political aspects
Literature - General
Languages & Literatures
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-134-59266-3
1-280-14097-6
0-203-97700-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Decoding the artefact; The politics of performance; Performing gender and sexual identity; Performing ethnicity; The performing body; The space of performance; Spectator and audience; At the borders of performance; Analysing performance; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910450604803321
London : , : Routledge, , 2001
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Performance analysis : an introductory coursebook / / edited by Colin Counsell and Laurie Wolf
Performance analysis : an introductory coursebook / / edited by Colin Counsell and Laurie Wolf
Pubbl/distr/stampa London : , : Routledge, , 2001
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (265 p.)
Disciplina 791.014
791/.01/4
Altri autori (Persone) CounsellColin <1956->
WolfLaurie
Soggetto topico Body, Human
Gender identity
Gender identity - Political aspects
Human body
Performing arts
Performing arts - Political aspects
Performing arts - Semiotics
Political aspects
Semiotics
Human body - Political aspects
Literature - General
Languages & Literatures
ISBN 92-5-104437-6
1-134-59265-5
1-134-59266-3
1-280-14097-6
0-203-97700-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Decoding the artefact; The politics of performance; Performing gender and sexual identity; Performing ethnicity; The performing body; The space of performance; Spectator and audience; At the borders of performance; Analysing performance; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910783013403321
London : , : Routledge, , 2001
Materiale a stampa
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Performance, embodiment and cultural memory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Colin Counsell and Roberta Mock
Performance, embodiment and cultural memory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Colin Counsell and Roberta Mock
Pubbl/distr/stampa Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina 306.4/84
Altri autori (Persone) CounsellColin <1956->
MockRoberta
Soggetto topico Performing arts - Social aspects
Collective memory
Body language
Human body - Symbolic aspects
Group identity
Performing arts - Anthropological aspects
Performing arts - Semiotics
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-282-48117-7
9786612481178
1-4438-1471-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PERFORMING INTERCULTURAL MEMORY IN THE DIASPORIC PRESENT; EMBODIMENT OF MEMORY AND THE DIASPORIC AGENT IN AKRAM KHAN COMPANY'S BAHOK; TOHU-BOHU; BELATED SPACES; BARCELONA; DEAD BODIES/LIVE BODIES; CONSUMING CULTURE; NO SWEAT; PIANOLA KARAOKE AND OTHER ATTRACTIONS; NOISE, MEMORY, GESTURE; KEY TEXTS; CONTRIBUTORS
Record Nr. UNINA-9910464902803321
Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Performance, embodiment and cultural memory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Colin Counsell and Roberta Mock
Performance, embodiment and cultural memory [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Colin Counsell and Roberta Mock
Pubbl/distr/stampa Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina 306.4/84
Altri autori (Persone) CounsellColin <1956->
MockRoberta
Soggetto topico Performing arts - Social aspects
Collective memory
Body language
Human body - Symbolic aspects
Group identity
Performing arts - Anthropological aspects
Performing arts - Semiotics
ISBN 1-282-48117-7
9786612481178
1-4438-1471-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PERFORMING INTERCULTURAL MEMORY IN THE DIASPORIC PRESENT; EMBODIMENT OF MEMORY AND THE DIASPORIC AGENT IN AKRAM KHAN COMPANY'S BAHOK; TOHU-BOHU; BELATED SPACES; BARCELONA; DEAD BODIES/LIVE BODIES; CONSUMING CULTURE; NO SWEAT; PIANOLA KARAOKE AND OTHER ATTRACTIONS; NOISE, MEMORY, GESTURE; KEY TEXTS; CONTRIBUTORS
Record Nr. UNINA-9910788990703321
Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars, 2009
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
Bouissac Paul  
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
Materiale a stampa
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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
Bouissac Paul  
Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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Theory of performing arts [[electronic resource] /] / by André Helbo
Theory of performing arts [[electronic resource] /] / by André Helbo
Autore Helbo André
Pubbl/distr/stampa Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : Benjamins, 1987
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (161 p.)
Disciplina 790.2/0141
790.20141
Collana Critical theory
Soggetto topico Performing arts - Semiotics
Performing arts - Philosophy
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-283-35892-1
9786613358929
90-272-7900-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto THEORY OF PERFORMING ARTS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; I. CRITICAL THEORY AND PERFORMING ARTS; 1. A general socio-semiotic model; 1. The discourse of social sciences; 1.1. The negative image of semiotics; 1.2. Actualization - Natural language (langue) and speech (parole); 1.3. Language and society; 1.4. The relational structure; 1.5. Enunciation; 2. Methodology. Spectacular discourse; 2.1. The polysemy of convention; 2.2. Arbitrariness and observation; 2.3. The possible world; 2.4. Persusasive and interpretative doing; 2.5. Modalities
2.6. Specific rhetorics Note of the translator; Notes; 2. Towards a theatre semiotics; Notes; 3. Theatrology and literary studies; 1. What is theatrology?; 2. Theatrical production; 2.1. Identification; 2.2. Differentiation; 2.3. Text and performance; 3. Theatrical reception; 4. Montage; Notes; II. FUNDAMENTAL CONTROVERSIES; 1. Research methodology; 1. General survey; 2. Semiotics of theater; 3. Relationships to other scientific disciplines; 4. The scientific quest; Note; 2. Communication and cognition; 1. The validity of the rubrics; 2. The relevance of the concept of stimulation
3. Relevance of the concept of communication Notes; 3. Pragmatics and discourse; 1. A double delegation process; 2. Enunciation instances; 3. Ponendo tollens; Notes; 4. The code, irrelevant concept?; 1. The icon; 2. The index; 3. The signal; 4. The symbol; 5. Stereotypes; Notes; III. NEW PERSPECTIVES AND NEW INSTRUMENTS; 1. The visual paradigm and the scene; 1. Process of an encounter; 2. Semiology of the image; 3. Visual semiotics; 4. The theatrical text; 4.1. Plastic materiality; 4.2. On the relationship premanifested-linguistics-iconics; 4.3. On the verbalization of the figurated
4.4. On codes Notes; 2. Readable and visible dimensions. Opera and theater.; 1. Definitions. Why is opera theory relevant to theatrology?; 2. Theater; 3. Opera; 4. The emancipated image; 5. Enunciated historicity; 6. A poetics; 3. Reception and relation; 1. Mask, otherness; 2. The theatrical object; 3. System of the game; 4. Approach of the theatrical game; Notes; 4. Constructing coherence; 1. Methodological premises; 2. The spectacular text; 3. The components of the spectacular text; 4. Pragmatic study of the spectacular text; 5. Contextual study of the spectacular text; 6. Text and coherence
7. Conclusion 5. The spectacular paradigm; Notes; References
Record Nr. UNINA-9910457550503321
Helbo André  
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : Benjamins, 1987
Materiale a stampa
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