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Rituals of Transgression and the Theory of Laughter
During the last 300 years circus clowns have emerged as powerful cultural icons. This is the first semiotic analysis of the range of make-up and costu...
Semiotics is long on theoretical, often obscure discourses, but short on applications that demonstrate with clarity the applicability of its methods. ...
Introduces the reader to the ways in which Saussure developed his revolutionary insights on language in the context of the linguistics of his time....
Evolutionary Semiotics and Cultural Resilience
This book analyses two features of the traditional circus that have come under increasing attack since the mid-20th century: the use of wild animals i...
Performance, Meaning, and Ritual
Now available in paperback, this volume presents a theory of the circus as a secular ritual and introduces a method to analyze its performances as mul...
The Communicative Experience of Cult, Art, and Awe
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019 This book documents and discusses the meaning(s) of the creative process at play in the crafting and staging ...
An Introduction to the Analysis, Interpretation, and Theory of the Performing Arts
What is a live performance? And why is semiotics the best approach for the analysis and interpretation of the performing arts? Drawing on semiotic dev...
This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate as three-dimensional objects. ...
"During the last 300 years circus clowns have emerged as powerful cultural icons. This is the first semiotic analysis of the range of make-up and cost...