Freak Show Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit

Name: Freak Show Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit
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ISBN: 9780226063126

ISBN-10: 0226063127

ISBN-13: 9780226063126

Edition: 1990 (Reprint)

Authors: Robert Bogdan

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From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today's standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative--the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America's most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan's fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: In Search of Freaks



Freak Show: The Institution



From Tavern to Madison Square Garden: A Chronicle of the Freak Show in America



Step Right Up: The World of Popular Amusement



Exotic and Aggrandized: Modes of Presenting Freaks



Profiles of Presentation



The Exhibition of People We Now Call Mentally Retarded



Illusions of Grandeur



Cannibals and Savages



Respectable Freaks



Self-Made Freaks



Conclusion: Freak Encounter


List of Abbreviations


Notes


References


Index