The Meaning of the Circus: The Communicative Experience of Cult, Art, and Awe by

Description: The Meaning of the Circus by Professor Emeritus Paul Bouissac, Paul Bouissac A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019This 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Paul Bouissac is Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto (Victoria College), Canada. He is a world renowned figure in semiotics and a pioneer of circus studies as an academic discipline. Table of Contents List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Like moths flying to a candle in the night2. Ritual and sacrifice: the circus between cult and art3. The Music is the Message4. Flashback5. Great expectations6. The Ethnography of Memory7. A Sense of Gravity8. To laugh or not to laugh9. Lives under siege10. Where is home? The circuss endless OdysseyBibliographyIndex Promotional Looking closely at the hermeneutics of the circus arts, this book adds semiotic depth to the analysis of the production and reception of circus performances. Prizes Commended for Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019 Promotional "Headline" Looking closely at the hermeneutics of the circus arts, this book adds semiotic depth to the analysis of the production and reception of circus performances. Feature Grounded in the personal experience of the 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 Details ISBN1350163759 Pages 224 Year 2020 ISBN-10 1350163759 ISBN-13 9781350163751 Format Paperback Imprint Bloomsbury Academic Subtitle The Communicative Experience of Cult, Art, and Awe Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 791.3 Publication Date 2020-02-20 Short Title The Meaning of the Circus Language English Author Paul Bouissac UK Release Date 2020-02-20 NZ Release Date 2020-02-20 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2020-02-19 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:126826982;

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