Wild and Dangerous Performances: Animals, Emotions, Circus
Book Details
Author(s)
P. Tait
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN
0230246486
ISBN-13
9780230246485
Availability
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Sales Rank
#5,522,860
Category
Performing Arts
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Elephants, lions, tigers and leopards evoke fascination and awe, fear and excitement.This bookanalyzes trained acts in twentieth-century live circus and cinema,reveals how humans anthropomorphize animals with their emotions, and interrogates the notion thatanimals embody a phenomenology of emotions and feelings in culture.
