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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"sideshow"”.
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An Examination of American Sideshow Banners as Folk Art, ca. 1920-1960
This thesis redresses the lack of scholarly attention paid to painted circus banners produced in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century by exploring the extent to which American folk art painting scholarship, methodologies, and objects can be used to articulate the meaning …
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In this dream I don't have to close my eyes : as told by Siamese twins Iris and Lily Hutton
… Hutton, conjoined twins who work in a circus sideshow. The poem has as its central concerns the effects of representation on subjectivity and the notion of the split subject. Iris and Lily perform their conjoined identities in a circus sideshow, where they are objectified as "freaks" and …
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Harry E. "Indian" Miller: Spectacles of Identity in the Early Twentieth Century American Southwest
… historian, writer, lecturer, archeologist, sideshow impresario, zookeeper, and Route 66 curio shop owner who spent most of his adult life promoting himself as an Apache known as Indian Miller, Chief Crazy Thunder. Miller insisted on his Native American heritage despite the fact that he was …
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Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter
… examines the function of the circus and the sideshow in the work of Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Katherine Anne Porter, arguing that all of these authors employ Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnivalesque as a reaction to and against the expectations put on them as women who are …
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Friedrich Carl von Savigny and the Politics of Legal Pluralism in Germany, ca. 1810-1847
… received narratives about the legal system as a sideshow of the rise of the administrative state in nineteenth-century Europe.
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American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin
… singlehandedly changed the status of films from sideshow amusements to narrative art. Griffith's techniques for creating visual narrative were intuitive and inspired from his imagination, an essential quality of the Emersonian poet. Griffith's own moral imperative was similar to Emerson's; he …
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Fiendish Dreams - Reverse Engineering Modern Architecture
… of wonder—filled with monsters—dioramas and sideshow performers whose livelihood depended on their ability to amaze an audience. Just this sort of rare and gifted fellow, McCay parlayed his entertaining lampoonery of Slumberland into some of the world's first animations on vaudeville. As with …
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Dr Carnesky’s incredible bleeding woman
… variety arts of stage magic, cabaret and sideshow, highlighting new propositions for the term Showwoman as opposed to showman to be used in contemporary performance vernacular, defining the Showwoman as using her spectacular vision in acts that are transformative and collaborative and an …
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New perspectives : a reappraisal of the lap steel guitar
… popularity has since placed the instrument as a sideshow curiosity; a wealth of recorded material that has held the instrument in historical suspension, latterly used by musicians who choose to recreate recording techniques and stylistic accuracy from a bygone era. Whilst the roots of the …
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The Rhetoric of Athenian Public Finance in Demosthenes
… power in financial experts. Far from a sideshow or a hindrance, rhetorical debate was central to successful financial decision-making because it enabled the ideological negotiation of these fundamental conflicts, and so allowed the democracy to adapt to the difficult fiscal conditions of …