The Big Top on the Big Screen: Explorations of the Circus in Film Cutler-Broyles Teresa
The Big Top on the Big Screen: Explorations of the Circus in Film Cutler-Broyles Teresa Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how…
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The Big Top on the Big Screen: Explorations of the Circus in Film Cutler-Broyles Teresa
Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment have sometimes worked together to create a spectacle of onscreen alchemy. The circus as discussed in these essays encompasses the big top, the midway, the sideshow and the freak show; it becomes backdrop, character, catalyst and setting, and is welcoming, malicious or terrifying. The films discussed herein are an eclectic group, ranging from early silent comedies to animated, 21st century examples, in which circuses serve as liminal or carnivalesque spaces wherein characters--and by extension audience members--can confront issues as far-reaching as labor relations, sensuality, identity, ethics, and more.
And film is the medium that brings it all together. Circus performers are family, friends, foe or all of the above. This volume starts the
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