Sujets :
Sciences dans la culture populaire
Technologies dans la culture populaire
Arts de cirque - Recherche et développement
Histoire des arts du cirque

Dépouillement du document :
Circus Matters: Engineering, Imagineering and Popular Stages of Technology—Introduction / Jürgens, Anna-Sophie
Engineers of Curiosity: The Barnum Era / Goodall, Jane
Unreal Limbs: Erin Ball and the Extended Body in Contemporary Circus / Lavers, Katie (et al.)
Circus as Laboratory: Imagineering Legitimacy / St Leon, Mark
Circus and Electricity: Staging Connexions Between Science and Popular Entertainments / Arrighi, Gillian
Technologies of Risk, Fear and Fun: Human and Nonhuman Circus Performance / Tait, Peta
The Circus and the Magic Lantern: A Portfolio of Hand-Painted Mechanical Magic Lantern Slides / Jolly, Martyn (et al.)
The Circus and Technologies of Animation / Richards, Ruth
Engineering Circus Enchantment: Automagic Technology and Electrifying Performances in Fiction / Jürgens, Anna-Sophie (et al.)

Résumé :
This book explores the circus as a site in and through which science and technology are represented in popular culture. Across eight chapters written by leading scholars – from fields as varied as performance and circus studies, art, media and cultural history, and engineering – the book discusses to what extent the engineering of circus and performing bodies can be understood as a strategy to promote awe, how technological inventions have shaped circus and the cultures it helps constitute, and how much of a mutual shaping this is. What kind of cultural and aesthetic effects does engineering in circus contexts achieve? How do technological inventions and innovations impact on the circus? How does the link between circus and technology manifest in representations and interpretations – imaginaries – of the circus in other media and popular culture? Circus, Science and Technology examines the ways circus can provide a versatile frame for interpreting our relationship with technology.

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 791.301 5 J899c 2021

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