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Spaces of Puppets in Popular Culture: Grotesque Geographies of the Borderscape

Spaces of Puppets in Popular Culture: Grotesque Geographies of the Borderscape

Banfield, Janet

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity

Toys & ModelsGeneral SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 1032103442
ISBN13: 9781032103440
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 29 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This first book-length exploration of geographical engagement with puppets examines constructions of puppets in contemporary popular British culture and considers the various ways in which puppets and humans (not just puppeteers) are unified in diverse cultural media.

Organised around themes of metaphorical, performative and transformational puppets, the work draws out how puppets are used in diverse cultural media (fiction, music, television, film and theatre), how they are constructed through those uses, and to what effect. Both puppets as generalised forms (bodily, relational or ideational) and specific puppet characters (Mr Punch, Pinocchio) are explored. Building upon existing associations between puppets and the grotesque, the volume extends understandings of the puppet by elaborating borderscaping strategies through which puppets are constructed and an alternative perspective on the uncanniness of puppets. Geographically, it unearths distinct puppet spatialities, identifies the socially critical potential of puppets, rescales geo/bio-politics at the interpersonal level, and highlights the potential of puppets within posthuman debates about the status of the human.

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