American Carnival

Author : Neil Henry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520931541

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American Carnival by Neil Henry Pdf

In this vividly written, compelling narrative, award-winning journalist Neil Henry confronts the crisis facing professional journalism in this era of rapid technological transformation. American Carnival combines elements of memoir with extensive media research to explore critical contemporary issues ranging from reporting on the Iraq War, to American race relations, to the exploitation of the image of journalism by advertisers and politicians. Drawing on significant currents in U.S. media and social history, Henry argues that, given the amount of fraud in many institutions in American life today, the decline of journalistic professionalism sparked by the economic challenge of New Media poses especially serious implications for democracy. As increasingly alarming stories surface about unethical practices, American Carnival makes a stirring case for journalism as a calling that is vital to a free society, a profession that is more necessary than ever in a digital age marked by startling assaults on the cultural primacy of truth.

Author : David Skernick
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0764357298

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American Carnival by David Skernick Pdf

Come celebrate the community, connection, and quirkiness of the American carnival. Stunning photographs by David Skernick capture the magic of the rides and games and the carnies and clowns who make the carnival their home. Meet Kat the sword swallower, Ember the fire eater, and the Human Fuse, Brian Miser, who sails through the air on fire! As day fades to dusk and the lights come up, smell the cotton candy, feel the vertigo of the Silver Yo Yo, and hear the laughter and screams. The panoramic images allow you to see the fair as if you were standing there yourself.

Author : Philip McGowan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015053753029

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American Carnival by Philip McGowan Pdf

Through the presentation and representation of the deemed exotic and unconventional, American carnival forms operate in alternative ways to European variations (typically delineated through a suspension of time and ordinary social conventions). Using an analysis of overt carnival forms, the book demonstrates how America reads society and culture through a dualistic vision contoured by race, class, ethnic, and gender concerns. It then examines a range of 19th- and 20th-century texts by such authors as Hawthorne, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Bellow to identify the operations and mutations of American carnival forms.

Author : Peg Aloi,Hannah E. Johnston
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476619125

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Carnivàle and the American Grotesque by Peg Aloi,Hannah E. Johnston Pdf

HBO’s Carnivàle was a critically-acclaimed, elaborate period narrative set in Depression era America that set the stage for the current explosion of cinematic storytelling on television. Despite an ambitious and unusual storyline, remarkable production design and stellar cast, the show was cancelled after only two seasons. No other television series has been so steeped in history, spirituality and occultism, and years later it retains a cult-like following. This collection of fresh essays explores the series through a diverse array of topics, from visual aesthetics to tarot symbolism to sexuality to the portrayal of deformity.

Author : Jane Nicholas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487515751

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Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s by Jane Nicholas Pdf

In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as 'freaks' in twentieth-century Canada. Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why the freak show persisted into the 1970s. In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900–1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture. Freak shows survived and thrived because of their flexible business model, government support, and by mobilizing cultural and medical ideas of the body and normalcy. This book is the first full length study of the freak show in Canada and is a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of Canadian popular culture, attitudes toward children, and the social construction of able-bodiness. Based on an impressive research foundation, the book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in the history of disability, the history of childhood, and the history of consumer culture.

Author : Rosary O'Neill
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625846099

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New Orleans Carnival Krewes by Rosary O'Neill Pdf

“The traditions, the secret societies and the history of how New Orleans and Mardi Gras came to be as integral to each other as red beans and rice” (Blogcritics). New Orleans is practically synonymous with Mardi Gras. Both evoke the parades, the beads, the costumes, the food—the pomp and circumstance. The carnival krewes are the backbone of this Big Easy tradition. Every year, different krewes put on extravagant parties and celebrations to commemorate the beginning of the Lenten season. Historic krewes like Comus, Rex, and Zulu that date back generations are intertwined with the greater history of New Orleans itself. Today, new krewes are inaugurated and widen a once exclusive part of New Orleans society. Through careful and detailed research of over three hundred sources, including fifty interviews with members of these organizations, author and New Orleans native Rosary O’Neill explores this storied institution, its antebellum roots and its effects in the twenty-first century. Includes photos! “[A] spirited and richly illustrated account.” —New York Theatre Wire

Author : David Gaylin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467127066

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The Wall of Death: Carnival Motordromes by David Gaylin Pdf

In 1911, the operators of Coney Island's Luna Park premiered a miniature, radically banked racetrack for staged automobile races that seemed to defy gravity. For a fee, patrons would watch from the perimeter of the 85-foot wooden saucer as daredevil drivers raced on the steep angle of the tiny track. The attraction created a sensation and was quickly copied with a show that featured motorcycle riders performing breathtaking stunts. When portable versions were made available, every traveling carnival owner in the United States rushed to have one. Motordromes with perfectly vertical walls soon followed, which permitted riders on their Indian motorcycles to climb, sometimes to a height of 20 feet, with nothing but centrifugal force between them and a trip to the trauma ward. And when full-grown lions were added to pursue riders in the arena, no one could resist buying a ticket! The "Wall of Death," a name these shows received in 1917, remained a staple attraction on American carnival midways until the 1970s.

Author : Kerrie Logan Hollihan
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781435893665

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Carnival in Latin America / Carnaval en Latinoamérica by Kerrie Logan Hollihan Pdf

Allow students to join in the festivities learning about carnivals.

Author : Cynthia Peters
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1563680947

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Deaf American Literature by Cynthia Peters Pdf

"The moment when a society must contend with a powerful language other than its own is a decisive point in its evolution. This moment is occurring now in American society". Peters explains precisely how ASL literature achieved this moment, tracing its past and predicting its future in this trailblazing study. Peters connects ASL literature to the literary canon with the archetypal notion of carnival as "the counterculture of the dominated". Throughout history carnivals have been opportunities for the "low", disenfranchised elements of society to displace their "high" counterparts. Citing the Deaf community's long tradition of "literary nights" and festivals like the Deaf Way, Peters recognizes similar forces at work in the propagation of ASL literature. The agents of this movement, Deaf artists and ASL performers -- "Tricksters", as Peters calls them -- jump between the two cultures and languages. Through this process they create a synthesis of English literary content reinterpreted in sign language, which also raises the profile of ASL as a distinct art form in itself. Peters applies her analysis to the craft's landmark works, including Douglas Bullard's novel Islay and Ben Bahan's video-recorded narrative Bird of a Different Feather. Deaf American Literature, the only work of its kind, is its own seminal moment in the emerging discipline of ASL literary criticism.

Author : Joe McKennon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:72085200

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A Pictorial History of the American Carnival by Joe McKennon Pdf

Author : James B. Twitchell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN : 0231078315

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Carnival Culture by James B. Twitchell Pdf

Examines the changes in publishing, movie making, and television programming since the 1960s that have affected Americans' tastes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004336100

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Gendering the Trans-Pacific World by Anonim Pdf

Gendering the Trans-Pacific World introduces an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology examines the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture.

Author : Michaeline Crichlow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135751364

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Carnival Art, Culture and Politics by Michaeline Crichlow Pdf

Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled times and spaces of these performances. The authors review Carnival’s performative aspects not merely as a calendrical festival, but rather center attention on the relationship between carnival and everyday life, and on how people negotiate their social spaces and possibilities in the context of modern power. The book therefore seeks to highlight the knotted time-spaces of power and to demonstrate the dynamic interplay between state spaces and people’s spaces that are being weaved by carnival's interlocutors. It demonstrates how Carnival and the Carnivalesque become analytic optics through which the relations of power in the social and political life of subjects who seek to tacitically or strategically vary their given identities, can be productively engaged. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.

Author : Isabelle Lehuu
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780807860823

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Carnival on the Page by Isabelle Lehuu Pdf

In the decades before the Civil War, American society witnessed the emergence of a new form of print culture, as penny papers, mammoth weeklies, giftbooks, fashion magazines, and other ephemeral printed materials brought exuberance and theatricality to public culture and made the practice of reading more controversial. For a short yet pivotal period, argues Isabelle Lehuu, the world of print was turned upside down. Unlike the printed works of the eighteenth century, produced to educate and refine, the new media aimed to entertain a widening yet diversified public of men and women. As they gained popularity among American readers, these new print forms provoked fierce reactions from cultural arbiters who considered them transgressive. No longer the manly art of intellectual pursuit, reading took on new meaning; reading for pleasure became an act with the power to silently disrupt the social order. Neither just an epilogue to an earlier age of scarce books and genteel culture nor merely a prologue to the late nineteenth century and its mass culture and commercial literature, the antebellum era marked a significant passage in the history of books and reading in the United States, Lehuu argues. Originally published 2000. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Isabel Machado
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496842602

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Carnival in Alabama by Isabel Machado Pdf

Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of rapid urban decline and subsequent attempts at revitalizing (or gentrifying) its downtown area. As in many other US cities, urban renewal, integration, and other socioeconomic developments led to white flight, marginalized the African American population, and set the stage for the development of LGBTQ+ community building and subculture. Yet these usually segregated segments of society in Mobile converged once a year to create a common identity, that of a Carnival City. Carnival in Alabama looks not only at the people who participated in Mardi Gras organizations divided by race, gender, and/or sexual orientation, but also investigates the experience of “marked bodies” outside of these organizations, or people involved in Carnival through their labor or as audiences (or publics) of the spectacle. It also expands the definition of Mobile’s Carnival “tradition” beyond the official pageantry by including street maskers and laborers and neighborhood cookouts. Using archival sources and oral history interviews to investigate and analyze the roles assigned, inaccessible to, or claimed and appropriated by straight-identified African American men and women and people who defied gender and sexuality normativity in the festivities (regardless of their racial identity), this book illuminates power dynamics through culture and ritual. By looking at Carnival as an “invented tradition” and as a semiotic system associated with discourses of power, it joins a transnational conversation about the phenomenon.