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题名/责任者:

Performing flight : from the barnstormers to space tourism / Scott Magelssen.

出版发行项:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2020.

ISBN:

9780472074532

ISBN:

9780472054534

载体形态项:

xi, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

其他载体形态:

Online version: Magelssen, Scott, 1974- Performing flight Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2020. 9780472126859

个人责任者:

Magelssen, Scott, 1974- author.

论题主题:

Aeronautics-History.

论题主题:

Stunt flying-History.

论题主题:

Air travel-History.

论题主题:

Aeronautics, Military-History.

论题主题:

Space tourism-History.

中图法分类号:

V2

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-183) and index.

摘要附注:

"This book brings performance and flight together in conversation as a means to explore the ways in which human heavier-than-air aviation and space travel have been fundamentally connected to images, gestures, narrative tropes, and performative acts. Performance has shaped the enterprise of flight in public perception and consciousness and in many cases has guaranteed its success as modes of entertainment, travel, research, and warfare. From the early professional aerial entertainers known as barnstormers, whose name was drawn from the itinerant theatre troupes of the nineteenth century, to the emerging industry of space tourism, which now uses performative means to cement its importance as both manifest destiny and an escape route from a failed planet, performance and flight have been inextricably linked in ways that have heretofore been underexamined"--

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