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Author : Clowns of America International
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Clowns
ISBN : 9781596520738
Author : David Carlyon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137547439
2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life. Layering critical reflections of personal experience with connections to wider scholarship, Carlyon focuses on the work of clowning while interrogating what clowns actually do, rather than using them as stand-ins for conceptual ideas or as sentimental figures.
Author : Ted Okuda,Jack Mulqueen
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809335367
Originally published: Chicago, Ill.: Lake Claremont Press, 2004.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780938021254
Author : Joshua Cohen
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780399590238
A wide-ranging, rule-bending collection of nonfiction from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Netanyahus “Attention reveals a fresh, vital literary voice as it covers seemingly every imaginable topic relating to modern life.”—Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists, Joshua Cohen arrives with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in the digital age. In essays, memoir, criticism, diary entries, and letters—many appearing here for the first time—Cohen covers the full depth and breadth of modern life: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, and psychology, and subjects as diverse as Google, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, fictional animals, Gustav Mahler, Aretha Franklin, John Zorn, landscape photography, fake Caravaggios, Wikipedia, Gertrude Stein, Edward Snowden, Jonathan Franzen, Olympic women’s fencing, Atlantic City casinos, the closing of the Ringling Bros. circus, and Azerbaijan. Throughout ATTENTION, Cohen directs his sharp gaze at home and abroad, calling upon his extraordinary erudition and unrivaled ability to draw connections between seemingly unlike things to show us how to live without fear in a world overflowing with information. In each piece, he projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his, and a voice as witty, profound, and distinct as any in American letters. At this crucial juncture in history, ATTENTION is a guide for the perplexed—a handbook for anyone hoping to bring the wisdom of the past into the culture of the future.
Author : Frank Wray
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781425143145
In life, it is a known fact clowns may laugh or make one laugh, look sad or make one look sad, and they may have a painted fallen teardrop on the cheek under the eye; but, clowns never cry. In this inspirational thriller, WHEN CLOWNS CRY, the reader will come to the realization the medical profession is not flawless and mistakes are made and people are misdiagnosed. The trauma and pain is evident in such a situation and yes it is true children of all ages, sizes, shapes, and colors do cry at times when tragedy strikes with a hurling speed. It is true, a bell of any size or shape may ring a song throughout the world. It may signify triumph, beauty, or disaster. But a beautiful wooden bell handcrafted by the needy or the disabled plays a different tune. It is never heard but ignored by mankind and only admired for its delicate path two people take in a torn life in hopes of finding a new direction just as an audience searches for some positive direction in life from a circus. In this heart-warming non-fictional, you the reader will have to: STEP RIGHT UP, and realize some clowns are held against their will throughout the world and in certain situations, clowns do cry. These clowns have courage beyond all comprehension and represent the innocence of humanity.
Author : Robert Sugarman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443811774
Acrobats and manipulators of objects, trained animals, and clowns – have been performing throughout history. In the eighteenth century, the invention of the circus ring provided a focus for the activities, and the modern circus was born. Once the circus was the most spectacular entertainment many Americans saw. When the supply of cheap labor disappeared and other forms of entertainment became available, the giant circuses shrank, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century new one ring circuses returned. The Circus and Circus Culture area of the Popular Culture Association has been examining circus history, circus life, the relationship of circus to society, and the impact of circus on the visual and literary arts since 1997. This book is a collection of papers from its annual conferences. "This fascinating collection showcases the transnational richness and cultural depth of the circus in an array of historical and contemporary settings. Strongly recommended for circus enthusiasts and students of popular culture, history, and theater." —Janet M.Davis, Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin, author of The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top
Author : Ernest Albrecht
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786495245
Since its inception in 1872, the Greatest Show on Earth has continually transformed itself to meet changing tastes and cultural shifts. Over the course of its long existence, it has been at various times a biblical spectacle and historical pageant, a ceremonial introduction to the peoples and cultures of the world, and a fairy tale masque. It has also featured sights ranging from gladiatorial combat and aerial daredevils to oddities of nature and foolhardy wonders. This work chronicles the colorful artistry of the Greatest Show on Earth from its beginning to 2010, revealing how each of 12 changes in management brought about changes in style and content. More than 50 photographs bring the flamboyant performers and amazing spectacles to life in this informative appreciation of the circus and its evolution.
Author : Tom Dalzell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 5135 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351765206
The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang offers the ultimate record of modern, post WW2 American Slang. The 25,000 entries are accompanied by citations that authenticate the words as well as offer examples of usage from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, musical lyrics, and Internet user groups. Etymology, cultural context, country of origin and the date the word was first used are also provided. In terms of content, the cultural transformations since 1945 are astounding. Television, computers, drugs, music, unpopular wars, youth movements, changing racial sensitivities and attitudes towards sex and sexuality are all substantial factors that have shaped culture and language. This new edition includes over 500 new headwords collected with citations from the last five years, a period of immense change in the English language, as well as revised existing entries with new dating and citations. No term is excluded on the grounds that it might be considered offensive as a racial, ethnic, religious, sexual or any kind of slur. This dictionary contains many entries and citations that will, and should, offend. Rich, scholarly and informative, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English is an indispensable resource for language researchers, lexicographers and translators.
Author : Rachel Kushner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476756608
TIME’S #1 FICTION TITLE OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 FINALIST for the MAN BOOKER PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD LONGLISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL An instant New York Times bestseller from two-time National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room earned tweets from Margaret Atwood—“gritty, empathic, finely rendered, no sugar toppings, and a lot of punches, none of them pulled”—and from Stephen King—“The Mars Room is the real deal, jarring, horrible, compassionate, funny.” It’s 2003 and Romy Hall, named after a German actress, is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: her young son, Jackson, and the San Francisco of her youth. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and pageantry and casual acts of violence by guards and prisoners alike; and the deadpan absurdities of institutional living, portrayed with great humor and precision. Stunning and unsentimental, The Mars Room is “wholly authentic…profound…luminous” (The Wall Street Journal), “one of those books that enrage you even as they break your heart” (The New York Times Book Review, cover review)—a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It is audacious and tragic, propulsive and yet beautifully refined and “affirms Rachel Kushner as one of our best novelists” (Entertainment Weekly).
Author : Mary Wise
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781411605237
In the summer of 1976, Mary Flynn ran away from home and joined the circus. Follow her down the road as she learns a whole new life as a circus clown, makes friends with circus folks, learns to cope with life on the road, and falls in love along the way. Note: This novel is not a children's book; it contains strong language and adult situations.
Author : Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481421980
The Hardy boys never dreamed they'd be swinging for their lives on the circus's flying trapeze, but that's exactly what happens when their pal Chet Morton discovers a college for clowns. But Frank and Joe have no time for clowning around, for they've intercepted a coded message that may turn the greatest show on earth into a carnival of crime.
Author : Tom Dalzell,Terry Victor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 21043 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317372516
Booklist Top of the List Reference Source The heir and successor to Eric Partridge's brilliant magnum opus, The Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, this two-volume New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is the definitive record of post WWII slang. Containing over 60,000 entries, this new edition of the authoritative work on slang details the slang and unconventional English of the English-speaking world since 1945, and through the first decade of the new millennium, with the same thorough, intense, and lively scholarship that characterized Partridge's own work. Unique, exciting and, at times, hilariously shocking, key features include: unprecedented coverage of World English, with equal prominence given to American and British English slang, and entries included from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, South Africa, Ireland, and the Caribbean emphasis on post-World War II slang and unconventional English published sources given for each entry, often including an early or significant example of the term’s use in print. hundreds of thousands of citations from popular literature, newspapers, magazines, movies, and songs illustrating usage of the headwords dating information for each headword in the tradition of Partridge, commentary on the term’s origins and meaning New to this edition: A new preface noting slang trends of the last five years Over 1,000 new entries from the US, UK and Australia New terms from the language of social networking Many entries now revised to include new dating, new citations from written sources and new glosses The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English is a spectacular resource infused with humour and learning – it’s rude, it’s delightful, and it’s a prize for anyone with a love of language.
Author : Jim Osterman
Publisher : Visual Reference Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1584710810
Author : Jason Oliver,Steven Rivera
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781449014384
ROLLIN BLUESTONE A GRAPHIC NOVEL The year is 2252. The Earth is in chaos, its environment and creatures threatened with destruction. Humans share consciousness with animals, androids, and dozens of alien species. Uneasy alliance and dangerous confrontation are part of everyone's life. This is the work of sinister One Eyed aliens who came to Earth to create killer armies for their galactic conquests. After 20 years, they are still struggling to dominate with their brutal Lizard Militia. Frustrated in his efforts, a dapper One Eye forms a partnership with a genius dwarf, a perverted scientist who seeks to rule the world through his own robot creations. The greatest challenge to their plans will come from a place they least expect. On a clear Los Angeles night, a lizard warrior loses a game of billiards to a pool hustling pig in a Westside joint called, "The Pig's Eye". The lizard is a sore loser and quickly lets everyone in the place know just how sore. This ruins the evening for a lonely young man nursing a cup of java at the bar. He is ROLLIN BLUESTONE, bounty hunter for the Renegade Intelligence Division, a police force of heroic figures who fight to maintain order in a troubled world. When the lizard escapes, Rollin gives chase. Rollin doesn't give up easily. " My name was given to me by the Blackfoot Indian tribe who found me abandoned as a baby and raised me. They gave me the blue stone. It means the Spirits of the Earth protect me."
