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

by Paul Bouissac and Professor Emeritus Paul Bouissac

Book Overview

This 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 135004413X
• ISBN13: 9781350044135
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"