Description: Meaning of the Circus : The Communicative Experience of Cult, Art, and Awe, Paperback by Bouissac, Paul, ISBN 1350163759, ISBN-13 9781350163751, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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This book documents and discusses the meaning(s) of the creative process at play in the crafting and staging of circus acts. It highlights the experience of circus artists as their skills develop and mature into public performances that create aesthetic and emotional values in the modern economy of live spectacles. It scrutinizes the meaning that circus acts produce for the spectators and for the artists themselves who live this process from the inside. This is a book for those studying semiotics and wanting to see it applied to a real life milieu in accessible and passionate prose.
The Meaning of the Circus is grounded on the personal experience of Professor Paul Bouissac as both a circus entrepreneur and a researcher with decades of primary material on the significance of past and contemporary circus acts. It is based on substantial accounts provided by many men and women who have agreed to share the challenges, joys, and anxieties of their life as artists. Personal and rigorous, it contributes to the hermeneutics of the circus arts by adding existential depth to the production and reception of their performances.
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Book Title: Meaning of the Circus : The Communicative Experience of Cult, Art
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Meaning of the Circus : the Communicative Experience of Cult, Art, and Awe
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Circus, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.3 Oz
Author: Paul Bouissac
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
