Contents
Introduction - Laurie Frederik
Section I. Race and Breed: Showing Off “Natural Bodies”
Chapter 1. Saddle Sensations and Female Equestrian Prowess at the National Horse Show - Kim Marra
Chapter 2. Painting the Body Brown and Other Lessons on How to Dance Latin - Laurie Frederik
Chapter 3. Shamu the (Killer) Whale and an Ecology of Commodity - Jennifer A. Kokai
Chapter 4. Hyping Clyde Beatty and His Wild Animal Show - Virginia Anderson
Section II. Power and Presence: The Politics of Showing Up
Chapter 5. Princess Beatrice’s Ridiculous Wedding Hat and the Transnational Performances of Things - Marlis Schweitzer
Chapter 6. Strobridge Posters and Late Nineteenth-Century Melodrama - Katie Johnson
Chapter 7. Carnival Bands, Popular Politics, and the Craft of Showing the People in Haiti - Chelsey Kivland
Chapter 8. The 2014 Sochi Olympiad Shows Off Putin’s (New, Great, Open) Russia - Catherine Schuler
Section III. Provocation and Titillation: To Show Off the Unshown
Chapter 9. The Intimate Provocations of Showing Religion in Secular France - Elayne Oliphant
Chapter 10. Not-for-Profit Pornography and the Benevolent Spectator - Joy Brooke Fairfield
Chapter 11. A Paradoxical Show of Hunted Ghosts and Haunted Histories - Robert Thompson
Chapter 12. Strip-Showing and the Suspension of a Naked End - Daniel Sack
Coda
Contributors
Index