The Big Top on the Big Screen : Explorations of the Circus in Film

Cover
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
(Re)Producing the Circus: Defining Circus Cinema (P.A. Wilder)
The “Universal Soul” of the American Circus at Mid-Century (David Blanke)
Spectrality and Spectatorship: Heterotopic Doubling in Cinematic Circuses (Whitney S. May)
The Normal Abnormal: The Case of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (Lisann Anders)
Horror Movies, Horror Bodies: Blurring the Freak Body in Cinema (Jessica L. Williams)
The Spectacle of Sensation in British Film: Circus of Horrors, Berserk! and Vampire Circus (Fernando Gabriel Pagoni Berns)
After the Glitter Fades: Analyzing Ingmar Bergman’s Cinematic Representation of Circus Life (Kylo-Patrick R. Hart)
Dumbo and the Circus of Childhood  (Michael Charloton)
Problematic Participants and Circus Ethics:  The Human/Nonhuman Concurrence of Jacob and Rosie in Water for Elephants  (Rachel L. Carazo)
Under the (Bi)g Top (Ayal C. Prouser)
Liminal Spaces and Identity in MirrorMask  (Teresa Cutler-Broyles)
About the Contributors
Index