Sujets :
Art clownesque
Histoire de l'art clownesque
Clowns - Russie
Clowns - Cinema
Popov, Oleg [clown]
Pickle Family Circus [compagnie de cirque]
Durov, Vladimir [clown]

Dépouillement du document :
1. The congress of clowns convenes again
2. Durov's pig, Nikulin's dog, Zhvanetsky's frog: Aesopian language as a vanishing act
3. Bim Bom and the laugh
4. Makhno's men: the anarchists at the circus
5. The post-soviet politician as clown: Joseph brodsky's democracy
6. Litsedei from Leningrad. Pickles from San Francisco (1988)
7. Trained bears as propagandists: The Moscow circus in New York (1988)
8. Durov's pig and mine (1988)
9. Glasnost, Godot and the circus (1989)
10. Twelve chairs without Mel Brooks
11. The complete Gulag and Cakewalk (1992)
12. Save a seat for Comrade Stalin
13. A day at the archives: Russian clowns on film
14. Enter Doctor Popov
15. Delegates to the second congress of clowns (1997)

Résumé :
The Congress of Clowns is a new collection of essays on Russian circus satire. The book introduces American readers to some of the century's greatest political clowns, including Vladimir Durov, Vitaly Lazarenko, Yuri Nikulin, and Boris Yeltsin.

Russian clowns, Russian political satire, and Russian theatre are discussed in these essays by Joel Schechter. The author argues that clowns are the "intellectuals of the circus," and when freedom of expression is restricted in Russia, circus clowns are among the most outspoken intellectuals in the whole society, although their dissent takes comic and indirect forms.

In successive chapters, Schechter examines Yuri Nikulin's plan to set free all the animals in his circus; the threat laughter posed to the Russian revolution; Stalin's direction of the Moscow Circus; anarchist tendencies of clowns and satirists; and Schechter's own revival of Vladimir Durov's trained pig act in the United States.

Collection : Collection Pascal Jacob

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 791.330 947 S314c 1998

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