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Part IV - Circus Studies Scholarship

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2021

Edited by
Gillian Arrighi  and
Jim Davis
Gillian Arrighi
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle, New South Wales
Jim Davis
Affiliation:
University of Warwick
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The Cambridge Companion to the Circus , pp. 229 - 256
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Damkjaer, Camilla. Homemade Academic Circus: Idiosyncratically Embodied Explorations into Artistic Research and Circus Performance. Winchester: Iff Books, 2016.Google Scholar
Fricker, Karen, and Malouin, Hayley, eds. ‘Circus and Its Others.’ Special issue, Performance Matters 4, no. 1–2 (2018).Google Scholar
Guest, Kristen, and Mattfield, Monica, eds. Equestrian Cultures: Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harrison, Martha. ‘Gender Representation in Circus Arts: A Case Study.’ Theatre, Dance, and Performance Training 10, no. 1 (2019): 21–37.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heitmann, Annegret. ‘Nordic Modernists in the Circus: On the Aesthetic Reflection of a Transcultural Institution.’ Humanities 7, no. 4 (2018): 1–11.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kralj, Ivan, ed. Žene & Cirkus (Women and Circus). Zagreb: Mala Performeska Scena, 2011.Google Scholar
Leroux, Louis Patrick, and Batson, Charles R. Cirque Global: Québec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nicholas, Jane. Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body: 1900–1970s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Springhall, John. The Genesis of Mass Culture: Show Business Live in America, 1840 to 1940. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.Google Scholar
Tait, Peta, and Lavers, Katie, eds. The Routledge Circus Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 2016.Google Scholar

Further Reading

Peacock, Louise. ‘Battles, Blows and Blood: Pleasure and Terror in the Performance of Clown Violence.’ Comedy Studies 11, no. 1 (2019).Google Scholar
Ritter, Naomi. Art As Spectacle: Images of the Entertainer since Romanticism. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989.Google Scholar
Starobinski, Jean. Portrait de l’artiste en saltimbanque. Paris: Gallimard, 2004.Google Scholar
Stoddart, Helen. Rings of Desire: Circus History and Representation. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Tait, Peta, and Lavers, Katie, eds. The Routledge Circus Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 2016.Google Scholar
Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.Google Scholar
Welsford, Enid. The Fool: His Social and Literary History. Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1966.Google Scholar
Ylönen, Susanne C., and Keisalo, Marianna. ‘Sublime and Grotesque: Exploring the Luminal Positioning of Clowns between Oppositional Aesthetic Categories.’ Comedy Studies 11, no. 1 (2019).Google Scholar

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