Semiotics Of Clowns And Clowning, The: Rituals Of Transgression And The Theory Of Laughter (Bloomsbury Advances In Semiotics)

In this book, Paul Bouissac, pioneer and master of the scientific approach to circus arts, demonstrates in a complete and brilliant way, by semiotic, anthropological and cognitive approaches, how the clowning art is a multimodal and complex act of communication, which produces laughter and sense through cognitive and cultural constructions shared by artists and spectators. THE definitive reference to understand clowning

• • Author: Paul Bouissac
• • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• • Publication Date: Jul 16, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 232 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1472532783
• • ISBN-13: 9781472532787