{"product_id":"circus-bodies","title":"Circus Bodies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough photographs and illustrations, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the socially changing ideas of muscular action in relation to our understanding of gender and sexuality. She questions how spectators see and enjoy aerial actions, and what cultural identities are presented by bodies in fast, physical aerial movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdeptly locating aerial performance within the wider cultural history of bodies and their identities, \u003cem\u003eCircus Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e explores this subject through a range of films such as \u003cem\u003eTrapeze\u003c\/em\u003e (1956) and \u003cem\u003eWings of Desire\u003c\/em\u003e (1987) and Tait also examines live performances including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* the first trapeze performers: Léotard and the Hanlon Brothers\u003cbr\u003e* female celebrities; Azella, Sanyeah, black French aerialist LaLa, the infamous Leona Dare, and the female human cannonballs\u003cbr\u003e* twentieth-century gender benders; Barbette and Luisita Leers\u003cbr\u003e* the Codonas, Concellos, Gaonas, Vazquez and Pages troupes\u003cbr\u003e* imaginative aerial acts in Cirque de Soleil and Circus Oz productions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will prove an invaluable resource for all students and scholars interested in this fascinating field.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54236188737880,"sku":"9780415329385","price":50.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415329385_a4773e4f-02fc-4ee8-b8d3-8f12adb5900f.jpg?v=1768637736","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/circus-bodies","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}