Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: NYU Press, 1996

0814782221 / 9780814782224

Da: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.Eureka Books

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Very good paperback copy. A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered throngs. For the price of a ticket, freak shows offered spectators an icon of bodily otherness whose difference from them secured their own membership in a common American identity--by comparison ordinary, tractable, normal. Rosemarie Thomson's groundbreaking anthology probes America's disposition toward the visually different. The book's essays fall into four main categories: historical explorations of American freak shows in the era of P.T. Barnum; the articulation of the freak in literary and textual discourses; contemporary relocations of freak shows; and theoretical analyses of freak culture. Essays address such diverse topics as American colonialism and public presentations of natives; laughing gas demonstrations in the 1840's; Shirley Temple and Tom Thumb; Todd Browning's landmark movie Freaks; bodybuilders as postmodern freaks; freaks in Star Trek; Michael Jackson's identification with the Elephant Man; and the modern talk show as a reconfiguration of the freak show. In her introduction, Thomson traces the freak show from antiquity to the modern period and explores the constitutive, political, and textual properties of such exhibits. Freakery is a fresh, insightful exploration of a heretofore neglected aspect of American mass culture.…

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Titolo
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
Editore
NYU Press
Anno di pubblicazione
1996
Rilegatura
Trade Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0814782221
ISBN 13
9780814782224
Cataloghi dei venditori
Theater

Eureka Books

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