Semiotics at the Circus

Semiotics at the Circus PDF

How can we account for the depth and resilience of the which means making energy of the circus? For hundreds of years, really millennia, audiences have flocked to ponder tight rope walkers, jugglers, tumblers, jokers, feats of horsemanship and wild animal coaching. All these performers from immemorial instances have relied on the similar strategies to outlive the bodily and social challenges to which they confront themselves. Their applications unfold with outstanding precision and predictability. Failures are the exception.But, the fascination they trigger appears to be inexhaustible. They eke out a dwelling from offering an ephemeral commodity as important as bread and water, one thing that may be watched, and watched once more when the want returns, intact, to feed the eyes and the thoughts with the wonders of their arts.
Introduction
Semiotician at the circus
The manufacturing of circus area
The constraints of nomadic life
The spatial algorithm of the circus
Squaring the circle
Olli and Illi: taking part in with area and want
The time of the circus. Cognitive and emotional dimensions of acrobatics and different circus acts
Circus acts as texts
A mind to mind affair
One other type of time
The timeless instruments of time
Clowns at work: the melodic construction of social interactions
Concluding remarks: circus time and cognition
In what sense is a circus animal performing?
Which means, textual content, and context
The civilized animal
A symphony of indicators: the artwork of deceit and the pitfalls of self-deception
Horses’ feathers: from tacit information to circus metaphors
A theoretical prelude
Birds, horses, and feathers
Horses, ostriches, and refrain ladies
Circus horses in instances of cultural adjustments
Circus and cycles
Horse and bicycle: preliminary analogies
Historical past, cultural evolution, and the circus
The introduction of the bicycle in circus spectacles
Pondering the unusual historical past of the bicycle
The semiotics of the bicycle
The bicycle enters the kingdom of the horse
The pyramid and the wheel: the visible discourse of circus acrobatics
The illustration of legislation and anarchy
The language of the pyramid
The Tangier troupe: from order to chaos and again
The staging of acrobatics as social metaphors
Revolution(s) on a trampoline
Triumph and tragedy: the semiotics of concern and hazard
Below the semiotic magnifying lens
Gender financial system and tacit guidelines: norms and transgressions in the air
The predictive energy of semiotics
Order and chaos on wheels
The logic of clown faces
The construction of European clowns’ make-up
From structuralism to biosemiotics
Icons of biomorphology
White faces and white patches: the administration of leucosignals in clown make-up
A cross-cultural probe of clown make-up and its transformations
Increasing the scope: towards a worldwide semiotic concept of clown make-up
Incident, accident, failure: life and loss of life at the circus
The illustration of unfavorable expertise in efficiency
A science of the particular person
Towards a mannequin of unfavorable expertise
When failure means success: the staging of a unfavorable expertise
The semiotic dissection of George Carl’s comedian act
Anatomy of a unfavorable masterpiece
Subjective vs. goal conditions
A girl at risk
There’s no enterprise like present enterprise: the advertising and marketing of efficiency
Advertising the performing arts
The golden guidelines of efficiency
Methods to seize an viewers
The facility of tales
The researcher as spectator: the pragmatics of circus performances
Towards a concept of reside performances
The predicaments of description
The principles of efficiency
Methods to make a verbal copy
From guidelines of efficiency to guidelines of description
Conclusion
Circus in perspective