Circus Bodies Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance

Name: Circus Bodies Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance
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ISBN: 9780415329378

ISBN-10: 041532937X

ISBN-13: 9780415329378

Edition: 2005

Authors: Peta Tait

List price: $145.00

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Circus Bodies: Cultural Identity in Aerial Performanceis an extraordinary survey of 140 years of high-wire acrobatics. Trapeze acts transformed performance after 1859 with muscular male and female performers presenting artistically graceful but athletically strenuous flying action. In this pioneering study, Peta Tait investigates socially changing ideas of muscular action in relation to our understanding of gender and sexuality. How do spectators see and enjoy aerial action? What cultural identities are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement? This is an untold cultural history of bodies, explored in a range of films, such as Trapeze (1956) and Wings of Desire (1987), and…

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/21/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.53" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.100

PETA TAIT is Professor and Chair of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, Australia.



Introduction : aerial bodies



Graceful manliness, unfeminine maidens and erotic gods



Unnatural acts, female strongmen



Cross-dressing and female muscular drag



Gender competition, camp spectacles and impossible machismo



Androgyny to queer violence : Cirque du Soleil, Archaos and Circus Oz