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Showing off, showing up : studies of hype, heightened performance, and cultural power / Laurie Frederik, Kim Marra, Catherine Schuler.

By: Frederik, Laurie A [author.]Contributor(s): Marra, Kim, 1957- [author.] | Schuler, Catherine, 1952- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]Description: 328 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780472073467 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780472053469 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Excess (Philosophy) | Spectacular, TheDDC classification: 306.48 LOC classification: B105.E78 | F74 2017Also issued online.
Contents:
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.
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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.

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