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Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body - Paperback - GOOD
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- Book Title
- Freakery : Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780814782224
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Law, Medical, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Disability, Civilization, Pathophysiology, Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Item Weight
- 28.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 418 Pages
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Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered throngs. For the price of a ticket, freak shows offered spectators an icon of bodily otherness whose difference from them secured their own membership in a common American identity--by comparison ordinary, tractable, normal. Rosemarie Thomson's groundbreaking anthology probes America's disposition toward the visually different. The book's essays fall into four main categories: historical explorations of American freak shows in the era of P.T. Barnum; the articulation of the freak in literary and textual discourses; contemporary relocations of freak shows; and theoretical analyses of freak culture. Essays address such diverse topics as American colonialism and public presentations of natives; laughing gas demonstrations in the 1840's; Shirley Temple and Tom Thumb; Todd Browning's landmark movie Freaks; bodybuilders as postmodern freaks; freaks in Star Trek; Michael Jackson's identification with the Elephant Man; and the modern talk show as a reconfiguration of the freak show. In her introduction, Thomson traces the freak show from antiquity to the modern period and explores the constitutive, political, and textual properties of such exhibits. Freakery is a fresh, insightful exploration of a heretofore neglected aspect of American mass culture.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814782221
ISBN-13
9780814782224
eBay Product ID (ePID)
914433
Product Key Features
Book Title
Freakery : Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
Number of Pages
418 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1996
Topic
Disability, Civilization, Pathophysiology, Social History, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Medical, History, Social Science
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
28.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
20
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"The release ofFreakeryis as much a comment on modern academia as it is an intriguing exploration of the enduring fascination with the construction and presentation of those "who have been coarsely categorized as 'freaks,' 'curiosities', prodigies' and 'monstrosities.'" -Ethnologies, "The release of Freakery is as much a comment on modern academia as it is an intriguing exploration of the enduring fascination with the construction and presentation of those "who have been coarsely categorized as 'freaks,' 'curiosities', prodigies' and 'monstrosities.'", "The release of Freakery is as much a comment on modern academia as it is an intriguing exploration of the enduring fascination with the construction and presentation of those "who have been coarsely categorized as 'freaks,' 'curiosities', prodigies' and 'monstrosities.'" - Ethnologies, "The release of Freakery is as much a comment on modern academia as it is an intriguing exploration of the enduring fascination with the construction and presentation of those "who have been coarsely categorized as 'freaks,' 'curiosities', prodigies' and 'monstrosities.'" - Ethnologies ,
Lccn
96-010034
Dewey Decimal
391/.6
Lc Classification Number
Gt6730.F74 1996
Copyright Date
1996
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