Sideshow U.S.A : freaks and the American cultural imagination / Rachel Adams.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001Description: xi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0226005399
- 9780226005393
- 0226005380
- 9780226005386
- Sideshow USA
- 791.350973
- GV1835. A33 2001
Contents:
1. Overture: Recovering Otis -- 2. Freaks of Culture: Institutions, Publics, and the Subjects of Ethnographic Knowledge -- 3. Sideshow Cinema -- 4. "A mixture of delicious and freak": The Queer Fiction of Carson McCullers -- 5. Freak Photography -- 6. From Sideshow to the Streets: Performing the "Secret Self" -- 7. The Black Look and the "spectacle of whitefolks": Wildness in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 8. Maternal Impressions -- Epilogue: Live from New York.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 791.350973 ADA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A407944B |
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| 791.09730904 AUS Liveness : performance in a mediatized culture / | 791.0993 SCH Performing indigenous culture on stage and screen : a harmony of frenzy / | 791.330994 CIR Circus! : the Jandaschewsky story / | 791.350973 ADA Sideshow U.S.A : freaks and the American cultural imagination / | 791.4 ADA Film culture : an anthology / | 791.4 CER Archaeology of the cinema / | 791.4 COH Screen media arts : an introduction to concepts & practices / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-276) and index.
1. Overture: Recovering Otis -- 2. Freaks of Culture: Institutions, Publics, and the Subjects of Ethnographic Knowledge -- 3. Sideshow Cinema -- 4. "A mixture of delicious and freak": The Queer Fiction of Carson McCullers -- 5. Freak Photography -- 6. From Sideshow to the Streets: Performing the "Secret Self" -- 7. The Black Look and the "spectacle of whitefolks": Wildness in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 8. Maternal Impressions -- Epilogue: Live from New York.
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