Freak Show

Author: Robert Bogdan
Editor: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022622743X
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Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it.

Exploring The Cultural History Of Continental European Freak Shows And Enfreakment

Author: Anna Kérchy
Editor: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443846422
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Freak Show. Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. Chevigny, Bell Gale. “Eclipse: A Theater Workshop on Disability, or, Reflections on Ahab's Tribe,” in Points of Contact: ...

Freakery

Author: Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Editor: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814782224
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See also Barnum , Phineas Taylor ; Freak Show : Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit ( Bogdan ) ; and specific freak types Extraterrestrial : Draks , 328 ; E.T. , 328 ; Ewoks , 328 , 333 ; Klingons , 328 , 334–35 , 337 n .

Freak Show Legacies

Author: Gary S. Cross
Editor: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350145149
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... Republic: Peale's Museum and Its Audience (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995); Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 29–32.

Cyber Humans

Author: Woodrow Barfield
Editor: Springer
ISBN: 3319250507
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These laws are directed at freak shows (sometimes termed “sideshow”) that accompany traveling carnivals. An interesting book in this area was written by Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit.

Disability And Popular Culture

Author: Katie Ellis
Editor: Routledge
ISBN: 1317150376
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However, as Robert Bogdan argued in Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit, '“Freak” is a frame of mind, a set of practices, a way of thinking about and presenting people' (p. 3). While freak shows may have ...

Monsters And Monstrosity From The Fin De Siecle To The Millennium

Author: Sharla Hutchison
Editor: McFarland
ISBN: 147662271X
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“The Exhibition of Humans with Differences for Amusement and Profit.” Policy Studies Journal 15.3 (March 1987): 537–550. Academic Search Premier. Web. 15 Oct. 2012. _____. Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit.

The Oxford Handbook Of Disability History

Author: Michael Rembis
Editor: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190234962
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... Nora Groce's Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard (1985) and Robert Bogdan's Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (1988).16 Each book takes a long view of disability, ...

Beauty And The Abject

Author: Corrado Federici
Editor: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820488103
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Freak Show : Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1988 . 16 Adams , p . 9 . Kemp , Martin and Marina Wallace . Spectacular Bodies . Berkley : U of California P , 2000 . 14 15 17 pp .

Culture And Dialogue

Author: Cosimo Zene
Editor: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443850225
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On American versions of freak shows see Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988); on British versions see Nadja Durbach, Spectacle of Deformity: Freak ...

The Victorian Freak Show

Author: Lillian Craton
Editor: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1604976535
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Bodies of Knowledge Collection. British Library Web site. Web. 20 Aug 2008. <http://www.bl.uk/learning/cult/bodies/freak/gallery/freakgal- lery.html>. Bogdan, Robert. Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit.

Media Performative Identity And The New American Freak Show

Author: Jessica L. Williams
Editor: Springer
ISBN: 331966462X
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Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. Bourdieu, Pierre. “On Television.” Media and Cultural Studies, Key Works. Revised Edition. Ed. Meenakshi Gigi Durham and ...

Big And Small

Author: Lynne Vallone
Editor: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300228864
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... The Freak-Garde: Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art in America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013), Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Chicago and London: Chicago ...

With Amusement For All

Author: LeRoy Ashby
Editor: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081314132X
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Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 29; Andrea S. Dennett, Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America (New York: New York University Press, ...

Considering Hate

Author: Kay Whitlock
Editor: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807042951
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Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 146. Edward J. Ingebretsen, At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture (Chicago: University ...

Appearance Bias And Crime

Author: Bonnie Berry
Editor: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108395104
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Freak show: Presenting human oddities for amusement and profit. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Bogdan, R. (with M. Elks and J. A. Knoll). (2012). Picturing disability: Beggar, freak, citizen, and other photographic rhetoric.

As You Law It Negotiating Shakespeare

Author: Daniela Carpi
Editor: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110591510
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Cf. Rachel Adams, Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination (Chicago: Chicago University Press; 2001); Robert Bogdan, Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Chicago and London: University of ...

Darwin In Atlantic Cultures

Author: Jeannette Eileen Jones
Editor: Routledge
ISBN: 1135178739
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Robert Bogdan's Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (1988) explores the “conventions of presentation” that went into creating the freak show. Viewing the identity of freaks as a social role, he presents a ...

Contact In Context

Author: Sandhya Patel
Editor: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443865508
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23 Although most freak shows consisted in showing “human freaks” with physiological and/or mental particularities, ... Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988). they included ...