Showing off, showing up : studies of hype, heightened performance, and cultural power / Laurie Frederik, Kim Marra, Catherine Schuler.
The interdisciplinary essays in Showing Off, Showing Up examine acts of showing, a particular species of performance that relies on competition and judgment, active spectatorship, embodied excess, and exposure of core values and hidden truths. Acts of showing highlight those dimensions of performanc...
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Ann Arbor :
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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 Up. 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.