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Freaks & Fire
The Underground Reinvention of Circus
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Author: J. Dee Hill
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Size: 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, 200 pages
Format: Perfect Bound Trade Paperback
Categories:
-Arts and Photography
-Biographies and Memoirs
-Nonfiction
ABID: 1932360522
ISBN10: 1932360522
ISBN13: 9781932360523
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Freaks and Fire is a free-falling leap into the world of radical circus.
Beyond the historical confines of Ringling Bros. and scorning the
big-budget schemes of Cirque du Soleil, these tightly knit troupes focus
on bringing audiences thrills spun around an ideological center. From the
sick-out shockfests of the infamous Jim Rose Circus Sideshow to the
anarchic burlesque of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus to the obscure but
elegant puppetry of the Cloudseeding Circus of the Performative Object,
Freaks and Fire brings readers into the diverse and all-consuming world
of circus as commentary, lifestyle and play.
The only book to chronicle the rise of the alternative circus, Freaks and
Fire gives us much more than just the show as spectacle. By examining
the role of the freak in society and the re-emergence of the tribe, it also
gives us a snapshot of society itself, of the larger audience vaudevillians
seeks to dazzle and challenge.
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