Book Reviews

Publications are ordered alphabetically by author.  For a full archive click here.

Albrecht, Ernest,The New American Circus

Bouissac, Paul, Semiotics At The Circus

Circus as Multimodal Discourse: Performance, Meaning and Ritual

Claessen, Wim, Portraits of Contemporary Circus

Coxe, Antony HippisleyA Seat at the Circus

Family La Bonche, Dinna Forget: Circus Histories from the North-East of England

Hammarstrom, David Lewis, Inside the Changing Circus: a critic’s guide

— Big Top Typewriter

Hill, J Dee,Freaks & Fire: the underground reinvention of circus

Holmes, Kate, Female Aerialists in the 1920s and Early 1930s: Femininity, Celebrity and Glamour

Lavers, Katie, Leroux, Louis Patrick, and Burtt, Jon, Contemporary Circus

McPherson, Douglas,Circus Mania

Purovaara, Tomi et al, An Introduction to Contemporary Circus

Schodt, Frederik L., Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe

Simon, Linda, The Greatest Shows On Earth: A History of the Circus

Speaight, George, A History of the Circus

Tait, Peta & Lavers, Katie (Eds.), The Routledge Circus Studies Reader

Truman, Rebecca, Aerialist

Wall, Duncan, The Ordinary Acrobat

Ward, Steve, Beneath The Big Top: a social history of the circus in Britain

Opulence and Ostentation: building the circus

Wilson, Thomas JM., Juggling Trajectories: Gandini Juggling 1991-2015

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