Overview

Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment have often worked together to create a spectacle of onscreen alchemy. The films discussed herein are an eclectic group, ranging from early silent comedies to animated, 21st century examples, in which circuses serve as liminal or carnivalesque spaces wherein characters--and by extension audience members--can confront issues as far-reaching as labor relations, sensuality, identity, ethics, and more. The circus as discussed in these essays encompasses the big top, the midway, the sideshow and the freak show; it becomes backdrop, character, catalyst and setting; and it is welcoming, malicious or terrifying. Circus performers are family, friends, foe or all of the above. And film is the medium that brings it all together. This volume starts the conversation about how circuses and film can combine to form productive, exciting spaces where almost anything can happen.

Full Product Details

Author:   Teresa Cutler-Broyles
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.231kg
ISBN:  

9781476671185

ISBN 10:   1476671184
Pages:   172
Publication Date:   27 January 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Re)Producing the Circus: Defining Circus Cinema (P.A. Wilder) The “Universal Soul” of the American Circus at ­Mid-Century (David Blanke) Spectrality and Spectatorship: Heterotopic Doubling in Cinematic Circuses (Whitney S. May) The Normal Abnormal: The Case of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (Lisann Anders( Horror Movies, Horror Bodies: Blurring the Freak Body in Cinema (Jessica L. Williams) The Spectacle of Sensation in British Film: Circus of Horrors, Berserk! and Vampire Circus (Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns) After the Glitter Fades: Analyzing Ingmar Bergman’s Cinematic Representation of Circus Life (Kylo-Patrick R. Hart) Dumbo and the Circus of Childhood (Michael Charlton) Problematic Participants and Circus Ethics: The Human/Nonhuman Concurrence of Jacob and Rosie in Water for Elephants (Rachel L. Carazo) Under the (Bi)g Top (Ayal C. Prouser) Liminal Spaces and Identity in MirrorMask (Teresa ­Cutler-Broyles) About the Contributors Index

Reviews

Author Information

Teresa Cutler-Broyles teaches film and cultural studies in the cinematic arts, architecture, and freshman learning communities departments at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and creative nonfiction at the Umbra Institute in Italy. She writes fiction, travel, popular culture and nonfiction, and has been published in numerous academic volumes on subjects ranging from Star Trek to belly dance.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions