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Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination ペーパーバック – イラスト付き, 2001/12/1
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A staple of American popular culture during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after the Second World War. But as Rachel Adams reveals in Sideshow U.S.A., images of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, the horrific, and the amusing, stubbornly reappeared in literature and the arts. Freak shows, she contends, have survived because of their capacity for reinvention. Empty of any inherent meaning, the freak's body becomes a stage for playing out some of the twentieth century's most pressing social and political concerns, from debates about race, empire, and immigration, to anxiety about gender, and controversies over taste and public standards of decency.
Sideshow U.S.A. begins by revisiting the terror and fascination the original freak shows provided for their audiences, as well as exploring the motivations of those who sought fame and profit in the business of human exhibition. With this history in mind, Adams turns from live entertainment to more mediated forms of cultural expression: the films of Tod Browning, the photography of Diane Arbus, the criticism of Leslie Fiedler, and the fiction Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, and Katherine Dunn. Taken up in these works of art and literature, the freak serves as a metaphor for fundamental questions about self and other, identity and difference, and provides a window onto a once vital form of popular culture.
Adams's study concludes with a revealing look at the revival of the freak show as live performance in the late 1980s and the 1990s. Celebrated by some, the freak show's recent return is less welcome to those who have traditionally been its victims. At the beginning of a new century, Adams sees it as a form of living history, a testament to the vibrancy and inventiveness of American popular culture, as well as its capacity for cruelty and injustice.
"Because of its subject matter, this interesting and complex study is provocative, as well as thought-provoking."—Virginia Quarterly Review
- 本の長さ302ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社University of Chicago Press
- 発売日2001/12/1
- 寸法15.24 x 2.29 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-100226005399
- ISBN-13978-0226005393
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Rachel Adams is an assistant professor of English at Columbia University.
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- 出版社 : University of Chicago Press; 2nd版 (2001/12/1)
- 発売日 : 2001/12/1
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 302ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0226005399
- ISBN-13 : 978-0226005393
- 寸法 : 15.24 x 2.29 x 22.86 cm
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- - 80位Circus Performing Arts
- - 944位Performing Arts History & Criticism
- - 1,934位19th Century U.S. History
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amanda2015年2月3日に英国でレビュー済み
5つ星のうち5.0 A superb book
フォーマット: ペーパーバックAmazonで購入Superb book: it explores theories of the body, of primitivism, of Other-ness and also of Reception Theory. The latter was particularly enlightening, as it clearly showed that the way freaks have been portrayed, represented and written/talked about says more about the portrayer than the portrayed. At many points in this fascinating book, I shouted 'Yes! Yes!' because it is full of such excellent insights.
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CHess2019年6月26日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
5つ星のうち5.0 If you hate Disney, this book is for you
フォーマット: ペーパーバックAmazonで購入This was required reading for a graduate course on abject bodies. It was an amazing piece that opened my eyes to just what we do to freaks, and what freaks we are to them.
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Jerome R. Dodson2012年11月24日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
5つ星のうち3.0 Where was the sideshow?
フォーマット: ペーパーバックAmazonで購入I wanted to like this book; I really did. The synopsis on Amazon was intriguing, and the subject matter had already captured my imagination. But rather than having the snap and sparkle of a sideshow, this book read like a leaden lecture, more suited to a grad school classroom. I found myself re-reading some sentences four and five times. Why didn't a good editor get ahold of this book and pare down the dense and sluggish passages that show up on every page? History and criticism don't have to feel like a visit to the dentist; they can read like a trip to the beach, and still get the point across. Kenneth Tynan and Bruce Catton come to mind...
While the book contains much interesting information, I just don't think the destination is worth the trip. It's not that I'm dense; I have a master's degree myself, and I have read plenty of advanced textbooks. It's just that a book on sideshows should bring a certain amount of the magic and wonder of those shows to the reader, instead of feeling pretentious and cold. A good opportunity missed; you'd be much better served reading Marc Hartzman's "American Sideshow" or Joe Nickell's "Secrets of the Sideshows," both available on Amazon, and worth your money. But skip this one unless you just have to have every book on the subject, or you want an example of how not to write a book.
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Hayseed92011年5月16日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
5つ星のうち3.0 Sideshow USA: Freaks & the Americal Cultural Imagination
フォーマット: ペーパーバックAmazonで購入For me, this book was somewhat boring because the author seems to be showing off her intellect, rather than focusing on freaks. She did a fantastic job of using big words and analyzing every possible aspect of freak shows, the people involved, and what other people think about it. It's a well written book for someone who likes to read analytical opinions, and I understand that the opinions expressed were pretty correct, but as I said, it was boring to me. If you are one who can read "big words" and "big sentences" (more educated than me, and able to get the sense and meaning of long statements with big words without having to stop and go over what was being said or to look up the meanings of words)....you would most likely enjoy this book. You can see that the author is an intelligent and highly educated person.
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Steven Mandel, J2014年7月14日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済み
5つ星のうち5.0 Five Stars
フォーマット: ペーパーバックAmazonで購入Excellent and detailed history.
Would highly recommend!