TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bouissac,Paul
TI  - Circus as multimodal discourse: performance, meaning and ritual 
U1  - 791.3014 22
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic / Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Circus
KW  - BUEsh
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - HHUUEENN
KW  - September2019
KW  - Reading book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction, 'Playing with Fire'1. Circus performances as rituals: participative ethnography2. The 'textility' of circus acts: disentangling cognition and pleasure3. Magic in the ring4. Horses which speak, count, and laugh5. Steeds and symbols: multimodal metaphors6. The staging of actions: heroes, anti-heroes, and animal actors7.Circus animals as symbols, actors, and persons8. Dancing with tigers, lying with lions: translating biology into art 9. Clowns at work: a socio-critical discourse 10. The imaginary circus11. Ideology and Politics in the Circus Ring12. The post-animal circusConclusionReferencesIndex
ER  -