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Circus as multimodal discourse : performance, meaning and ritual / Paul Bouissac.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bouissac, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Circus--Social aspects.
- Circus.
- Performing arts--Semiotics.
- Performing arts.
- Discourse analysis--Social aspects.
- Discourse analysis.
- Visual communication.
- Multimedia communications.
- Modality (Linguistics).
- Semiotics.
- Physical Description:
- 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781441125637
- 1441125639
- 9781441135759
- 1441135758
- 9781441102614
- 1441102612
- OCLC:
- 809365721
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