Sideshow performers

The kinds of popular culture that survive in the dystopia of Anne Washburn’s play, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric play addresses our own engagement with popular culture in many ways. The purposes of popular culture sometimes change or remain the same. Popular culture is with us throughout our lives in times of triumph and anxiety. Washburn’s play focuses on a group of people who recall an episode of The Simpsons during a time of crisis. They compare lines and characters in order to better understand

Although Hollywood is not a stranger to a movie being used as a stencil or a cookie cutter to generate other. If the plot was dissected of the award-winning movie, The Fast and the Furious, one could see an exact story line to another award-winning cult classic, Point Break. With the 10 years in between the production of both movies, it has become very easy for some and especially the newest generation of movie watcher to completely miss the shocking similarities and brilliance of these two movies

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reasons of stress for the crewmembers were they are unable to handle some of the physical stress related to the job, job security, time being spent on the job and not at home i.e. not enough flexibility, commuting to and from work, and the stunt performers lack of respect for the crewmembers. To me, the solutions were obvious. I suggested Celsey implement relaxation training to teach the crewmembers how to deal with and alleviate stress, software training to help the crewmember become more comfortable

The Physics behind Daredevil Motorcycle Jumpers For a span of about 20 years only a few people were brave enough to be motorcycle stuntmen. Performing death defying jumps were and still are looked upon as a “crazy” action. It takes much practice, natural skill, and planning for a stuntman to perform a successful jump. Of course practice is dictated by ones determination, skill is acquired with the combination of practice and good genes. And the planning has to do with physics. Sure one could

“When I look at freaks it makes me content by comparison to be less than perfect,” - Clyde Ingalls, boss of the sideshow for Ringling Brothers (Drimmer, 10) AMC’s Freakshow: Normal is Dead It is difficult to watch American television in the first decade of the twenty-first century without encountering a freak. According to Robert Bogdan in his socio-historical study of the freak show in America, the popularity of the circus had run its course by the 1940s (Bogdan 60), attracting in its waning years

movie Freaks; it effectively sets the scene for the story as it unfolds. The movie opens with a barker from a sideshow act, he leads a group of onlookers to a pin and tells how the once beautiful woman has become the monster she is now. The audience is then introduced to Cleopatra, a beautiful trapeze artist, played by Olga Baclanova and Hans, played by Harry Earles, a midget circus performer. Hans has fallen in love with Cleo, even though he is engaged to a

“Little People, Big World” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” “The Bachelor” and “Survivor,” “The Biggest Loser” and “The Real World” “Miss America” and “American Idol”—it is difficult to watch American television in the first decade of the twenty-first century without encountering a freak. Britney Spears, called her 2009, forty-nine show tour through the US, Canada and the UK. Perhaps, more accurately, it is not so much that the circus goes on as that the circus has been revived in the American imagination

Dracula and Frankenstein, certainly the horror in the film could not have been Cleopatra’s exploitation and mistreatment of Hans. Rather, it would be the presentation of the sideshow performers as a cult-like group, beginning with the wedding scene. The chanting of “one of us,” accompanied later by the images of the performers crawling through the mud in the thundering night with weapons, and the later reveal of Cleopatra as horribly mutilated by this group, would be considered the truly terrifying

Riot Fest has begun announcing its lineup for this year’s three day concert extravaganza. The alternative music festival and carnival, which was founded eleven years ago and often contains bands that are native to the Chicago area such as; Fall Out Boy, Alkaline Trio, and Rise Against, will continue unveiling the rest of the lineup in mid-June. Riot Fest & Rodeo kicks off in Denver, Colorado on August 28th at the National Western Complex. As of this morning, the bands that will be participating