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Circus Bodies : cultural identity in aerial performance / Peta Tait
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TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, [2005]Description: x, 187 pàgines : il·lustracions, fotografies en blanc i negre ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- sense mediació
- volum
- 9780415329385
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Summary: "Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of high-wire acrobatics and the cultural identities that are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement." -- Worldcat
Conté: Introduction : aerial bodies -- Graceful manliness, unfeminine maidens, and erotic gods -- Unnatural acts, female strongmen -- Cross-dressing and female muscular drag -- Gender competition, camp spectacles, and impossible machismo -- Androgyny to queer violence : Cirque du Soleil, Archaos and Circus Oz -- Ecstasy and visceral flesh in motion
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"Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of high-wire acrobatics and the cultural identities that are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement." -- Worldcat
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