Circus and culture
Subtitle: a semiotic approach
By: Paul Bouissac.
Series: Advances in semiotics
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Circus; Semiotics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Circus and culture.; title: The circus as multimedia language.; title: Structure and meaning of acrobatic acts.; title: The performing horse.; title: On jugglers and magicians.; title: Poetics in the lion's den.; title: Circus performance as ritual.; title: Equine exhibitions as poetic discourse.; title: Clown performances as metacultural texts.; title: The semiotics of the circus poster.