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When pigs could fly and bears could dance : a history of the Soviet circus / Miriam Neirick.
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Double agents : cultural and political brokerage in early modern Europe / edited by Marika Keblusek and Badeloch Vera Noldus.
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Waiting for the cemetery vote : the fight to stop election fraud in Arkansas / Tom Glaze with Ernie Dumas.
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…The simple expedient of theft -- The boys of summer -- Absentee democracy -- Throw the rascals out -- Petition parties -- Crime and impunity -- Snoop sisters -- Court jesters -- Independence day -- A penny for your vote -- Judicial remedy.…”
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Velazquez / MI Productions, Inc.
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Court Painter to King Phillip IV (4:12) -- Artlessness: Nature Not Arrangement (4:19) -- Dona Juana Pacheco (2:20) -- Equestrian Paintings (3:49) -- Idealism (3:25) -- Court Jesters (3:46) -- Art and Psychology (3:10) -- Use of Color (2:07) -- Rome and Back to Spain (3:15) -- Capturing an Era on Canvas (3:22)…”
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The great adventure films / by Tony Thomas.
Published 1976Table of Contents: “…King Solomon's mines -- Captain Horatio Hornblower -- The African queen -- Ivanhoe -- Scaramouche -- The adventures of Robinson Crusoe -- 20,000 leagues under the sea -- The court jester -- Around the world in 80 days -- War and peace -- The bridge on the river Kwai -- The magnificent seven -- Swiss family Robinson -- The sundowners -- Ride the high country -- El Cid -- Lawrence of Arabia -- The great escape -- Zulu -- The naked prey -- The professionals -- The man who would be king.…”
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Demographic angst : cultural narratives and American films of the 1950s / Alan Nadel.
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…": the right to work On the waterfront -- "Life could not better be": disorganized labor, the little man and the court jester -- Citizens of the free world unite: international tourism and postwar identity in Roman holiday, Teahouse of the August moon, and Sayonara -- Expedient exaggeration and the scale of Cold War farce in North by northwest -- Defiant desegregation with no (liberal) way out -- "'I want to be in America': urban integration, Pan American friendship, and West Side story".…”
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Queer movie medievalisms / edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly, Tison Pugh.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…DeMille's The Crusades (1935) / Lorraine Kochanske Stock -- "In the company of orcs" : Peter Jackson's queer Tolkien / Jane Chance -- The eastern Western: camp as a response to cultural failure in The conqueror / Anna Kłosowska -- "In my own idiom" : social critique, campy gender, and queer performance in Monty Python and the Holy Grail / Susan Aronstein -- Performance, camp, and queering history in Luc Besson's Jeanne d'Arc / Susan Hayward -- Sean Connery's star persona and the queer Middle Ages / Tison Pugh -- Will Rogers' pink spot : A Connecticut Yankee (1931) / Kathleen Coyne Kelly -- Danny Kaye and the "fairy tale" of queerness in The court jester / Martha Bayless -- Mourning and sexual difference in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's Parsifal / Michelle Bolduc -- Superficial medievalism and the queer futures of film / Cary Howie.…”
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Digital media and democracy : tactics in hard times / edited by Megan Boler.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…-- Graham Meikle, "Whacking Bush : tactical media as play" -- Megan Boler, "The will to truth : satire, dissent and Jon Stewart as the court jester of failing media" -- Rebecca Statzel, "cybersupremacy: the new face and form of white supremacist activism" -- Concluding interview and commentary / Brian Holmes.…”
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Dewey and Elvis : the life and times of a rock 'n' roll deejay / Louis Cantor.
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…-- Racial cross-pollination : black and white together -- The great convergence : "pop" tunes' one-stop -- The Phillips boys : soul (better than blood) brothers -- "Red, hot, and blue" : the hottest cotton-pickin' thang' in the country -- Dewey and Elvis : the synthesized sound -- Dewey introduces Elvis to the world -- The king and his court jester : men-children in the promised land -- Red hot at first -- blue at the very end -- The final descent : "If Dewey couldn't be number one, he didn't wanna be." -- "Goodbye, good people" -- The legacy : the next generation and beyond.…”
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Clowns, fools and picaros : popular forms in theatre, fiction and film / edited by David Robb.
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Clowns, Fools and Picaros; Contents; Introduction; Where The Antic Sits; Modern Tragicomedy and the Fool; The Postmodern Theatre Clown; Nietzsche and the Praise of Masks; Clowning Around at the Limits of Representation: On Fools, Fetishes and Bruce Nauman's Clown Torture; An American Circus: the Lynch Victim as Clown; The Court Jester in Nigerian Drama; "Fratello Arlecchino": Clowns, Kings, and Bombs in Bali; Scaramouche: The Mask and the Millenium.; The Cinema of Masks: Commedia dell'Arte and Jean Renoir's The Golden Coach…”
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Opera Easy : Rigoletto / HistoryGraphics.net (Firm).
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Chinese characters : profiles of fast-changing lives in a fast-changing land / edited by Angilee Shah and Jeffrey Wasserstrom ; foreword by Pankaj Mishra.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Chapter 10: The Road to a Better LifeChapter 11: Yong Yang's Odyssey; Chapter 12: The Court Jester; Part Five: Teachers and Pupils; Chapter 13: The Great Wall of Education; Chapter 14: Gilded Age, Gilded Cage; Chapter 15: Shredding for the Motherland; Afterword; Notes and Readings; List of Contributors; Credits.…”
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Suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune : international perspectives on stress, laughter and depression / edited by Bernie Warren.
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…Hong Kong's Female Sex Workers: Stress and Anxiety-related Consequences of the Intersection of Poverty, Gender, Dangerous WorkWe Aim To Pee: Unmasking the Secret Phobia and Reducing Performance Anxiety; Asylum Seekers in Australia: Turning Repression and Stress into long-term Anxiety and Depression; The Hospital Clown: A Cross Boundary Character; Clown Language, Performance and Children's Hospitals; LaughterBoss -- The Court Jester in Aged Care; "Nothing seems funny anymore": Studying Burnout in Clown-Doctors; Expressing Sensibilities: Healing Functions of Humour in Palliative Care.…”
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Chicago fundamentalism : ideology and methodology in economics / Craig F. Freedman.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…-- George Stigler as a dissertation supervisor -- De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum -- Milton Friedman 1912-2006 -- Entre nous -- a review of the Friedman-Stigler correspondence -- Not for love nor money: Milton Friedman's counter-revolution -- Why economists can't read -- Shunning the frumious bandersnatch: an unacknowledged assumption of Coase's theorem -- Animal spirits in his soup: a look at the methodology and rhetoric of the General Theory -- In defence of footnotes -- a clarification of a misunderstanding of Keynes's definition of money -- Economic convictions and prior beliefs: Akerlof wrestles with the ghost of John Maynard Keynes -- When truth is not beauty, not beauty truth: a review of econ art -- divorcing art from science in modern economics -- Court jesters, house gadflies and economic critics.…”
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