Search results for “[Subject: circus]”

• Author(s): S. L. Kotar | J. E. Gessler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General To both young and old, the circus remains an icon of American entertainment, a wholesome pastime untouched...

• Author(s): David Lewis Hammarstrom • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Anthropology - General Once an eagerly awaited spectacle, the traveling circus--that miracle of red wagons, trumpeting...

• Author(s): Teresa Cutler-Broyles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration ...

• Author(s): Angela Carter • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: LiteraryWinner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her...

• Author(s): Armond Fields • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Fred Stone was one of America's most versatile and talented of Broadway's colorful entertainers. Audiences ...

• Author(s): John Stewart • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Arthur Barnes--"The 100 Somersault Man"--was the world's greatest acrobat, a legend...

• Author(s): Valtteri Arstila | Dan Lloyd • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MetaphysicsInterdisciplinary perspectives on the feature of conscious life that scaffolds every act of cognition: subjective time. Our awaren...

• Author(s): Paul E. Mix • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Tom Mix became a major star in the 1920s, earning over $900,000 for his movie work in 1921. Fox refused, however, to renew...

• Author(s): Ann Anderson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment ...

• Author(s): Lorenzo Chiesa • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismThe evolution of the concept of subjectivity in the works of Jacques Lacan.Countering the call by some "pro-Lacanians" for an end to the exegesis ...

• Author(s): Alexi Kukuljevic • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )An examination of the disoriented subject of modernity: a dissolute figure who makes an makes an object of its absence; fr...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Tom Huhn | Lambert Zuidervaart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: AestheticsTheodor W. Adorno died in 1969 and his last major work, Ästhetische Theorie, was published posthumously a year later. Few philoso...

• Author(s): Charles B. Osburn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Emotions, feelings and morality play a critical role in our daily decision-making. With the rapid advance of industr...

• Author(s): James Meese • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Science & Technology PolicyAn examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational fra...

• Author(s): William G. Lycan • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this book, William Lycan defends an original theory of mind that he calls "homuncular functionalism." What is consciousn...

• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Reference Over the course of 80 years television has produced countless programs, many of which fit a particular ...

• Author(s): Marc Raymond Strauss • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Alfred Hitchcock's imperative was to charge the screen with emotion. Subject matter and ac...

• Author(s): Paul F. Lazarsfeld | Neil W. Henry • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: MethodologyA lucid, stimulating introduction to a wide range of mathematical techniques, their usefulness in thinking, and their applic...