Sujets :
Dressage
Animaux de cirque
Animaux sauvages
Éléphants
Parcs zoologiques - Aspect social
Animaux domestiques
Dressage - Philosophie et théorie
Dressage - Aspect sociologique
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus [compagnie de cirque]
Bertram Mills Circus [compagnie de cirque]
Dresseurs - Biographies
Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus [compagnie de cirque]
Gebel-Williams, Gunther [dresseur]

Résumé :
Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards evoked fascination and awe, fear and excitement in the twentieth-century circus. Wild and Dangerous Performances: Animals, Emotions, Circus explores what happened when big cats roared on cue and elephants danced together. Acts in live circus and cinema reveal how humans anthropomorphize animals with their emotions. Trained animals became caught up in scientific precepts from Darwin on emotions and in opposition to animal performance. This history considers acts by Carl Hagenbeck, Frank Bostock, Alfred Court, Clyde Beatty and others in leading international circuses. Descriptions of animal performers were vivid and moving, but completely contradictory. Animals embody a phenomenology of transacted emotions and feelings in culture, recently exemplified by Christian, the lion. Contributing to the growing scholarship in animal studies, this fascinating study has much to offer to anyone interested in circus animal performance, performance history, animal emotions and animal rights and ethics. [editor summary]

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 791.320 1 T135w 2012

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