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Author : Joe McKennon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book A Pictorial History of the American Carnival written by Joe McKennon and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe McKennon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book A Pictorial History of the American Carnival written by Joe McKennon and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : J. McKennon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Pictorial History of American Carnival V1 written by J. McKennon and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Randy Johnson
Publisher : Last Gasp
ISBN 13 : 9780867196221
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Freaks, Geeks, and Strange Girls written by Randy Johnson and published by Last Gasp. This book was released on 2004 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a colourful history of the carnival sideshow and its distinctive banner art. With one hundred colour photographs, the book lovingly surveys this now vanished icon of early rural America, counterpointing classic freak show art with contemporary interpretations. Fifty archival black-and-white photos of sideshows provide a historical context for the banner illustrations.
Author : Norman D. Anderson
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879725327
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Ferris Wheels written by Norman D. Anderson and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anderson (North Carolina State University) is clearly obsessed with the Ferris Wheel. He describes the conception and construction of the first example--at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893. Imitators and variations are described and illustrated with period photos and patent drawings. An appendix contains 115 pages of patent drawings. A charming, unique book (that will win no graphics awards). Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Frederick Fried
Publisher : South Brunswick : A.S. Barnes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Pictorial History of the Carousel written by Frederick Fried and published by South Brunswick : A.S. Barnes. This book was released on 1964 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Nicholas
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487515758
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s written by Jane Nicholas and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as 'freaks' in twentieth-century Canada. Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why the freak show persisted into the 1970s. In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900–1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture. Freak shows survived and thrived because of their flexible business model, government support, and by mobilizing cultural and medical ideas of the body and normalcy. This book is the first full length study of the freak show in Canada and is a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of Canadian popular culture, attitudes toward children, and the social construction of able-bodiness. Based on an impressive research foundation, the book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in the history of disability, the history of childhood, and the history of consumer culture.
Author : David Gaylin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146712706X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book The Wall of Death: Carnival Motordromes written by David Gaylin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1911, the operators of Coney Island's Luna Park premiered a miniature, radically banked racetrack for staged automobile races that seemed to defy gravity. For a fee, patrons would watch from the perimeter of the 85-foot wooden saucer as daredevil drivers raced on the steep angle of the tiny track. The attraction created a sensation and was quickly copied with a show that featured motorcycle riders performing breathtaking stunts. When portable versions were made available, every traveling carnival owner in the United States rushed to have one. Motordromes with perfectly vertical walls soon followed, which permitted riders on their Indian motorcycles to climb, sometimes to a height of 20 feet, with nothing but centrifugal force between them and a trip to the trauma ward. And when full-grown lions were added to pursue riders in the arena, no one could resist buying a ticket! The Wall of Death, a name these shows received in 1917, remained a staple attraction on American carnival midways until the 1970s.
Author : Joe Nickell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813123585
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Sideshows written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joe Nickell - once a carnival pitchman, then a magician, private detective, and investigative writer - has pursued sideshow secrets for years and has worked the famous carnival midway at the Canadian National Exhibition. For this book, he interviewed showmen and performers, collected carnival memorabilia, researched published accounts of sideshows and their lore, and even performed some classic sideshow feats, such as eating fire and lying on a bed of nails as a cinderblock was broken on his chest. The result of these varied efforts, Secrets of the Sideshows tells the captivating story of the magic, tricks - real or illusory - and performers of the world's midway shows."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814782224
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Freakery written by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different 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.
Author : J. Durant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Pictorial history of the American circus written by J. Durant and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William H. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313077479
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The 1930s written by William H. Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-10-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most historical studies bury us in wars and politics, paying scant attention to the everyday effects of pop culture. Welcome to America's other history—the arts, activities, common items, and popular opinions that profoundly impacted our national way of life. The twelve narrative chapters in this volume provide a textured look at everyday life, youth, and the many different sides of American culture during the 1930s. Additional resources include a cost comparison of common goods and services, a timeline of important events, notes arranged by chapter, an extensive bibliography for further reading, and a subject index. The dark cloud of the Depression shadowed most Americans' lives during the 1930s. Books, movies, songs, and stories of the 1930s gave Americans something to hope for by depicting a world of luxury and money. Major figures of the age included Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Irving Berlin, Amelia Earhart, Duke Ellington, the Marx Brothers, Margaret Mitchell, Cole Porter, Joe Louis, Babe Ruth, Shirley Temple, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Innovations in technology and travel hinted at a Utopian society just off the horizon, group sports and activities gave the unemployed masses ways to spend their days, and a powerful new demographic—the American teenager—suddenly found itself courted by advertisers and entertainers.
Author : Kenneth Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615905648
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The American Traveling Carnival written by Kenneth Miller and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The American Traveling Carnival" in monograph, describes the genesis of a unique form of entertainment. The World's Columbian Exposition, of 1893 in Chicago served as the jumping off point for all American traveling carnivals to come.
Author : John Durant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Pictorial History of the American Circus written by John Durant and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James L. Dickerson
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
ISBN 13 : 058538827X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Colonel Tom Parker written by James L. Dickerson and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2003-01-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on unprecedented research and interviews, this authoritative biography of Colonel Tom Parker (1909-1997) includes new revelations and insights into rock music's most renowned and notorious manager.
Author : John Durant
Publisher : New York : A. S. Barnes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pictorial History of the American Circus written by John Durant and published by New York : A. S. Barnes. This book was released on 1957 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
