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Author |
: Jane Nicholas |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2018-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487515751 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487515758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s by : Jane Nicholas
In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as 'freaks' in twentieth-century Canada. Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why the freak show persisted into the 1970s. In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900–1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture. Freak shows survived and thrived because of their flexible business model, government support, and by mobilizing cultural and medical ideas of the body and normalcy. This book is the first full length study of the freak show in Canada and is a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of Canadian popular culture, attitudes toward children, and the social construction of able-bodiness. Based on an impressive research foundation, the book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in the history of disability, the history of childhood, and the history of consumer culture.
Author |
: Arthur Milnes |
Publisher |
: Dundurn |
Total Pages |
: 535 |
Release |
: 2017-08-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781459738706 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1459738705 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis With Faith and Goodwill by : Arthur Milnes
On the occasion of Canada’s 150th anniversary this year, With Faith and Goodwill showcases the words and deeds of prime ministers, presidents, and others, from Tommy Douglas to Hillary Clinton. With rare photographs and long-forgotten treasures, this book looks back at a remarkable shared history and those who changed its course.
Author |
: Joseph P. Shapiro |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 397 |
Release |
: 2011-06-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307798329 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307798321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis No Pity by : Joseph P. Shapiro
“A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post “The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune “Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It looks at the rise of what is called the disability rights movement—the new thinking by disabled people that there is no pity or tragedy in disability and that it is society’s myths, fears, and stereotypes that most make being disabled difficult.”—from the Introduction
Author |
: Gillian Arrighi |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2021-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108485166 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108485162 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Circus by : Gillian Arrighi
An authoritative introduction to the specialised histories of the modern circus, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary manifestations and scholarship, from its origins in commercial equestrian performance, to contemporary inflections of circus arts in major international festivals, educational environments, and social justice settings.
Author |
: Peta Tait |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2005-11-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134331215 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134331215 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Circus Bodies by : Peta Tait
Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the cultural identities that are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement.
Author |
: Linda Leskau |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2022 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781640141087 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1640141081 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Disability in German-Speaking Europe by : Linda Leskau
This collection reflects on the development of disability studies in German-speaking Europe and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on disability in German, Austrian, and Swiss history and culture.
Author |
: Maxwell Foran |
Publisher |
: Athabasca University Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781897425053 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1897425058 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Icon, Brand, Myth by : Maxwell Foran
This book investigates the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for ten days every July. Since 1912, archetypal "Cowboys and Indians" are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughout Calgary. Each essay in this collection examines a facet of the experience – from the images on advertising posters to the ritual of the annual parade. This study of the Calgary Stampede as a social phenomenon reveals the history and sociology of the city of Calgary and a component of the social construction of identity for western Canada as a whole.
Author |
: Ernest Albrecht |
Publisher |
: Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 2006-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461706540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461706548 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Contemporary Circus by : Ernest Albrecht
The fun, energy, and hard work integral to the exciting world of the circus is lovingly captured in The Contemporary Circus: Art of the Spectacular, an in depth look at the creative process of today's circuses. Through numerous personal interviews with directors, designers, composers and performers, author Ernest Albrecht provides a unique inside view of the journey through which the most innovative and exciting modern circuses are produced, from the director and production team to the performers, and from designing the circus to setting it to music. Case studies of specific productions by the Big Apple Circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, and Cirque du Soleil illuminate the artistic give-and-take necessary in such a collaborative process, proving the circus a true art form, one as artistic as theatre or dance. A variety of performers such as animal trainers, dancers, and clowns discuss their approach to their individual specialties, and the text concludes with an examination of the world's circuses and schools and their methods for training circus artists. A full photo spread of 30 beautiful photos will help inspire and enlighten artists and fans alike.
Author |
: Anthony D'Andrea |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2007-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134110506 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134110502 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Nomads by : Anthony D'Andrea
Global Nomads provides a unique introduction to the globalization of countercultures, a topic largely unknown in and outside academia. Anthony D’Andrea examines the social life of mobile expatriates who live within a global circuit of countercultural practice in paradoxical paradises. Based on nomadic fieldwork across Spain and India, the study analyzes how and why these post-metropolitan subjects reject the homeland in order to shape an alternative lifestyle. They become artists, therapists, exotic traders and bohemian workers seeking to integrate labor, mobility and spirituality within a cosmopolitan culture of expressive individualism. These countercultural formations, however, unfold under neo-liberal regimes that appropriate utopian spaces, practices and imaginaries as commodities for tourism, entertainment and media consumption. In order to understand the paradoxical globalization of countercultures, Global Nomads develops a dialogue between global and critical studies by introducing the concept of 'neo-nomadism' which seeks to overcome some of the shortcomings in studies of globalization. This book is an essential aide for undergraduate, postgraduate and research students of Sociology, Anthropology of Globalization, Cultural Studies and Tourism Studies.
Author |
: Heather Stanley |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2022-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487512682 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487512686 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sex and the Married Girl by : Heather Stanley
Sex – who was having it, who shouldn’t have it, and who was supposed to be having it but wasn’t – was a major concern to social authorities in the immediate postwar era. Though they are often remembered with nostalgia as a sexually simpler time, the 1950s and early 1960s were incredibly sexually productive years. Sex and the Married Girl examines how two interrelated and dominant groups in Canada – medical professionals and church leaders – used married heterosexual female sexuality as a lever to rebuild the Canadian family and the state itself. Using embodied historical methodologies, the book examines not only discourses around sex but also how those discourses could influence the actual experience of sex for married women. Heather Stanley draws upon extensive oral life histories of women who lived, married, and had sex during this liminal social period to demonstrate that this was a time of simultaneous sexual and gender quiescence and change.