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| Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Overture: Recovering Otis | 1 |
| 2 | Freaks of Culture: Institutions, Publics, and the Subjects of Ethnographic Knowledge | 25 |
| 3 | Sideshow Cinema | 60 |
| 4 | "A mixture of delicious and freak": The Queer Fiction of Carson McCullers | 89 |
| 5 | Freak Photography | 112 |
| 6 | From Sideshow to the Streets: Performing the "Secret Self" | 138 |
| 7 | The Black Look and the "spectacle of whitefolks": Wildness in Toni Morrison's Beloved | 161 |
| 8 | Maternal Impressions | 186 |
| Epilogue: Live from New York | 210 | |
| Notes | 229 | |
| Bibliography | 259 | |
| Index | 277 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
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Tonya Comeaux
reviewed Sideshow U. S. A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination on February 17, 2021
Sideshow U. S. A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
**4.5 Rating**
An academic title with significant emotional gravitas, this book was a fascinating exploration of how "freak" as a descriptor has evolved over time. It concentrates most specifically on the history of sideshows, both in terms of the performers and in terms of a capitalistic machine. The author handles discussion of the often deplorable treatment of sideshow performer bodies respectfully and underscores how Otherness is marketed to the mainstream. If you are interested in how disability gets framed culturally and/or how horror films engage with these framings, I can't recommend this book enough.
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Add Sideshow U. S. A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination, A staple of American popular culture during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after the Second World War. But as Rachel Adams reveals in Sideshow U.S.A., images of the freak show, with its combination of , Sideshow U. S. A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Sideshow U. S. A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination, A staple of American popular culture during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after the Second World War. But as Rachel Adams reveals in Sideshow U.S.A., images of the freak show, with its combination of , Sideshow U. S. A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination to your collection on WonderClub |
