Memoirs Of A Circus Clown

Author : David Figlioli
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494310147

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Memoirs of a Circus Clown by David Figlioli Pdf

The true story of film and television actor David Figlioli's journey from a hard fought steady career in Hollywood to his life changing decision to run away and join the circus. Attempted human rights violations, drug use, imprisonment, deportation, sex, bureaucratic buffoonery, world travel, cultures clashing, artistic growth and the reality of living the dream are candidly unveiled in the new book, "MEMOIRS of a CIRCUS CLOWN." Unapologetically honest and yet filled with the belief in the importance of dreams, "MEMOIRS of a CIRCUS CLOWN" is a unique, first person account of an actor following his dreams of working in television and the subsequent midlife crisis that propelled him to get a job touring and performing as a clown in the circus. Discover the reality of working in Hollywood and an insiders view of what it takes to audition, train, tour and perform for millions of spectators in the modern day circus. Follow the experience of one man's journey of conquering his biggest fears and the ultimate discovering of himself while hidden behind a mask of clown make-up.

Author : Max Dillae
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019646977

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Reveries of a Circus Clown by Max Dillae Pdf

A charming and whimsical memoir by a former circus clown. The book is full of amusing anecdotes and insights into the world of the circus. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Robert Edmund Sherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Circus
ISBN : UCAL:$B40808

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Here We are Again by Robert Edmund Sherwood Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0812460057

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A Day in the Life of a Circus Clown by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Carlyon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1137547421

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The Education of a Circus Clown by David Carlyon Pdf

Author : Helen R. Everett
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781662427435

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The Circus Clown by Helen R. Everett Pdf

Mr. Happy is a curious clown. You'll be surprised at what a clown can do. Come along on his amazing adventure. You'll be glad you did.

Author : Carol Gaskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0816711089

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A Day in the Life of a Circus Clown by Carol Gaskin Pdf

Follows a circus clown through his day as he practices routines, cares for costumes and props, applies make-up, and entertains the audience.

Author : Kenneth W. Thomas,Ron Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Clowns
ISBN : 0732917751

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First Concepts Circus Clown (Ref Pack) by Kenneth W. Thomas,Ron Thomas Pdf

Author : David Carlyon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137547439

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The Education of a Circus Clown by David Carlyon Pdf

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 : Micah D. Childress
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781621903956

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Circus Life by Micah D. Childress Pdf

The nineteenth century saw the American circus move from a reviled and rejected form of entertainment to the “Greatest Show on Earth.” Circus Life by Micah D. Childress looks at this transition from the perspective of the people who owned and worked in circuses and how they responded to the new incentives that rapid industrialization made possible. The circus has long been a subject of fascination for many, as evidenced by the millions of Americans that have attended circus performances over many decades since 1870, when the circus established itself as a truly unique entertainment enterprise. Yet the few analyses of the circus that do exist have only examined the circus as its own closed microcosm—the “circus family.” Circus Life, on the other hand, places circus employees in the larger context of the history of US workers and corporate America. Focusing on the circus as a business-entertainment venture, Childress pushes the scholarship on circuses to new depths, examining the performers, managers, and laborers’ lives and how the circus evolved as it grew in popularity over time. Beginning with circuses in the antebellum era, Childress examines changes in circuses as gender balances shifted, industrialization influenced the nature of shows, and customers and crowds became increasingly more middle-class. As a study in sport and social history, Childress’s account demonstrates how the itinerant nature of the circus drew specific types of workers and performers, and how the circus was internally in constant upheaval due to the changing profile of its patrons and a changing economy. MICAH D. CHILDRESS received his PhD in history from Purdue University and currently works as a Realtor® in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His articles have appeared in Popular Entertainment Studies and American Studies.

Author : John H. Towsen
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015004809128

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Clowns by John H. Towsen Pdf

"The clown was not invented by a single individual, nor is he exclusively a product of Western civilisatino. Instead he has bene perpetually rediscovered by society because - as fool, jester, and trickster - he meets compelling human needs." -- pg. 4.

Author : Alison Stutley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Clowns
ISBN : 073271141X

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The Circus Clown by Alison Stutley Pdf

Littérature de jeunesse en langue anglaise.

Author : Matt Taibbi
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780399592478

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Insane Clown President by Matt Taibbi Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy’s uncertain future, by the country’s most perceptive and fearless political journalist. In twenty-five pieces from Rolling Stone—plus two original essays—Matt Taibbi tells the story of Western civilization’s very own train wreck, from its tragicomic beginnings to its apocalyptic conclusion. Years before the clown car of candidates was fully loaded, Taibbi grasped the essential themes of the story: the power of spectacle over substance, or even truth; the absence of a shared reality; the nihilistic rebellion of the white working class; the death of the political establishment; and the emergence of a new, explicit form of white nationalism that would destroy what was left of the Kingian dream of a successful pluralistic society. Taibbi captures, with dead-on, real-time analysis, the failures of the right and the left, from the thwarted Bernie Sanders insurgency to the flawed and aimless Hillary Clinton campaign; the rise of the “dangerously bright” alt-right with its wall-loving identity politics and its rapturous view of the “Racial Holy War” to come; and the giant fail of a flailing, reactive political media that fed a ravenous news cycle not with reporting on political ideology, but with undigested propaganda served straight from the campaign bubble. At the center of it all stands Donald J. Trump, leading a historic revolt against his own party, “bloviating and farting his way” through the campaign, “saying outrageous things, acting like Hitler one minute and Andrew Dice Clay the next.” For Taibbi, the stunning rise of Trump marks the apotheosis of the new postfactual movement. Taibbi frames the reporting with original essays that explore the seismic shift in how we perceive our national institutions, the democratic process, and the future of the country. Insane Clown President is not just a postmortem on the collapse and failure of American democracy. It offers the riveting, surreal, unique, and essential experience of seeing the future in hindsight. “Scathing . . . What keeps the pages turning in this so freshly familiar story line is the vivid observation and original turns of phrase.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Duncan Wall
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307472267

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The Ordinary Acrobat by Duncan Wall Pdf

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year When Duncan Wall visited his first nouveau cirque as a college student in Paris, everything about it—the monochromatic costumes, the acrobats singing Simon and Garfunkel, the juggler reciting Proust—hooked him. Soon he was attending circuses two or three nights a week, and soon after that, he entered the intensively competitive training program at France’s École Nationale des Arts du Cirque. The Ordinary Acrobat is a magical, funny, sometimes scary story of what happens when one average American joins a host of gifted—and flexible—international students in a rigorous regimen of tumbling, trapeze, juggling, and clowning. Brimming with surprises, outsized personalities, and plenty of charm, this personal history of how the circus evolved into the thrilling experience it is today delivers all the excitement and pleasure of the circus ring itself.

Author : Tiny Kline
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252075100

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Circus Queen and Tinker Bell by Tiny Kline Pdf

A glimpse of day-to-day life under the big top, from one of the circus's most remarkable performers