Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination
(2011)Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
A non fiction book by Thomas Fahy
This book examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900-1950. During this period, the freak show shifted from a highly popular and profitable form of entertainment to a reviled one. But why? And how does this response reflect larger social changes in the United States at the time? Fahy examines this change and how artists responded.
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