| The Education of a Circus Clown: Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Carlyon, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1137554819 ISBN-13: 9781137554819 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Circus - Performing Arts | Comedy - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 791.309 |
| LCCN: 2015020687 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" (0.85 lbs) 219 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life. Layering critical reflections of personal experience with connections to wider scholarship, Carlyon focuses on the work of clowning while interrogating what clowns actually do, rather than using them as stand-ins for conceptual ideas or as sentimental figures. |