Circus, Science and Technology: Dramatising Innovation by Anna-Sophie JürgensEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2020 | 203 Pages | ISBN : 3030432971 | 20.95 MB
This book explores the circus as a site in and through which science and technology are represented in popular culture. Across eight chapters written by leading scholars – from fields as varied as performance and circus studies, art, media and cultural history, and engineering – the book discusses to what extent the engineering of circus and performing bodies can be understood as a strategy to promote awe, how technological inventions have shaped circus and the cultures it helps constitute, and how much of a mutual shaping this is.