Frederik, Laurie A.,

Showing off, showing up : studies of hype, heightened performance, and cultural power / Laurie Frederik, Kim Marra, Catherine Schuler. - 328 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Laurie Frederik Race and Breed: Showing Off "Natural Bodies". Saddle Sensations and Female Equestrian Prowess at the National Horse Show / Kim Marra Painting the Body Brown and Other Lessons on How to Dance Latin / Laurie Frederik Shamu the (Killer) Whale and an Ecology of Commodity / Jennifer A. Kokai Hyping Clyde Beatty and His Wild Animal Show / Virginia Anderson Power and Presence: The Politics of Showing Up. Princess Beatrice's Ridiculous Wedding Hat and the Transnational Performances of Things / Marlis Schweitzer Strobridge Posters and Late Nineteenth-Century Melodrama / Katie Johnson Carnival Bands, Popular Politics, and the Craft of Showing the People in Haiti / Chelsey Kivland The 2014 Sochi Olympiad Presents Putin's (New, Great, Open) Russia / Catherine Schuler Provocation and Titillation: To Show Off the Unshown. The Intimate Provocations of Showing Religion in Secular France / Elayne Oliphant Not-for-Profit Pornography and the Benevolent Spectator / Joy Brooke Fairfield A Paradoxical Show of Hunted Ghosts and Haunted Histories / Robert Thompson Strip-Showing and the Suspension of a Naked End / Daniel Sack Coda.



9780472073467 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780472053469 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2017002263

GBB8A7254 bnb

018471601 Uk


Excess (Philosophy)
Spectacular, The.

B105.E78 / F74 2017

306.48