Showing off, showing up : studies of hype, heightened performance, and cultural power /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Frederik, Laurie A. (Editor), Marra, Kim, 1957- (Editor), Schuler, Catherine, 1952- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Laurie Frederik
  • Race and Breed: Showing Off "Natural Bodies". Saddle Sensations and Female Equestrian Prowess at the National Horse Show / Kim Marra
  • Painting the Body Brown and Other Lessons on How to Dance Latin / Laurie Frederik
  • Shamu the (Killer) Whale and an Ecology of Commodity / Jennifer A. Kokai
  • Hyping Clyde Beatty and His Wild Animal Show / Virginia Anderson
  • Power and Presence: The Politics of Showing Upages Princess Beatrice's Ridiculous Wedding Hat and the Transnational Performances of Things / Marlis Schweitzer
  • Strobridge Posters and Late Nineteenth-Century Melodrama / Katie Johnson
  • Carnival Bands, Popular Politics, and the Craft of Showing the People in Haiti / Chelsey Kivland
  • The 2014 Sochi Olympiad Presents Putin's (New, Great, Open) Russia / Catherine Schuler
  • Provocation and Titillation: To Show Off the Unshown. The Intimate Provocations of Showing Religion in Secular France / Elayne Oliphant
  • Not-for-Profit Pornography and the Benevolent Spectator / Joy Brooke Fairfield
  • A Paradoxical Show of Hunted Ghosts and Haunted Histories / Robert Thompson
  • Strip-Showing and the Suspension of a Naked End / Daniel Sack
  • Coda.