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Author | : Jennifer A. Kokai |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-06-28 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0809336014 |
Drawing on cultural associations with bodies of water, the spectacle of pretty women, and the appeal of the concept of “family-friendly” productions, performative aquatic spectacles portray water as an exotic fantasy environment exploitable for the purpose of entertainment. In Swim Pretty, Jennifer A. Kokai reveals the influential role of aquatic spectacles in shaping cultural perceptions of aquatic ecosystems in the United States over the past century. Examining dramatic works in water and performances at four water parks, Kokai shows that the evolution of these works and performances helps us better understand our ever-changing relationship with the oceans and their inhabitants. Kokai sorts the regard for and harnessing of water in aquatic spectacles into three categories—natural, tamed, and domesticated—and discusses the ways in which these modes of water are engaged in the performances throug an aesthetics of descension. Ultimately, this study links the uncritical love of aquatic spectacles to a disregard for the rights of marine animals and lack of concern for the marine environment.
Author | : Jennifer A. Kokai |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2017-06-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0809336006 |
In Swim Pretty, Jennifer A. Kokai reveals the influential role of aquatic spectacles in shaping cultural perceptions of aquatic ecosystems in the United States over the past century.
Author | : Leanne Shapton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-07-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101584939 |
Winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, Autobiography Swimming Studies is a brilliantly original, meditative memoir that explores the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming. From her training for the Olympic trials as a teenager to enjoying pools and beaches around the world as an adult, Leanne Shapton offers a fascinating glimpse into the private, often solitary, realm of swimming. Her spare and elegant writing reveals an intimate narrative of suburban adolescence, spent underwater in a discipline that continues to inspire Shapton’s work as an artist and author. Her illustrations throughout the book offer an intuitive perspective on the landscapes and imagery of the sport. Shapton’s emphasis is on the smaller moments of athletic pursuit rather than its triumphs. For the accomplished athlete, aspiring amateur, or habitual practicer, this remarkable work of written and visual sketches propels the reader through a beautifully personal and universally appealing exercise in reflection.
Author | : Vicki Valosik |
Publisher | : Liveright Publishing |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2024-06-25 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1324093056 |
A groundbreaking history of how women found synchronicity—and power—in water. “If you’re not strong enough to swim fast, you’re probably not strong enough to swim ‘pretty,’?” said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers of female swimmers—none more so than synchronized swimmers, for whom Williams is often considered godmother. In this revelatory history, Vicki Valosik traces a century of aquatic performance, from vaudeville to the Olympic arena, and brings to life the colorful cast of characters whose “pretty swimming” not only laid the groundwork for an altogether new sport but forever changed women’s relationships with water. Williams, who became a Hollywood sensation for her splashy “aquamusicals,” was just one in a long, bedazzled line of swimmers who began their careers as athletes but found greater opportunity, and often social acceptance, in the world of show business. Early starlets like Lurline the Water Queen performed “scientific” swimming, a set of moves previously only practiced by men—including Benjamin Franklin—that focused on form and exhibited mastery in the water. Demonstrating their fancy feats in aquariums and water tanks rolled onto music hall stages, these women stunned Victorian audiences with their physical dexterity and defied society’s rigid expectations of what was proper and possible for their sex. Far more than bathing beauties, they ushered in sensible swimwear and influenced lifesaving and physical education programs, helping to drop national drowning rates and paving the way for new generations of female athletes. When a Chicago physical educator matched their aquatic movements to music in the 1920s, young girls flocked to take part in “synchronized swimming.” But despite overwhelming love from audiences and the Olympic ambitions of its practitioners, “synchro” was long perceived as little more than entertaining pageantry, and its athletes would face a battle against the current to earn a spot at the highest echelons of sport. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of synchronized swimming’s elevation to Olympic status, Swimming Pretty honors its incredible history of grit, glamor, and sheer athleticism.
Author | : Lynn Sherr |
Publisher | : Public Affairs |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1610390466 |
Explores the nature and appeal of swimming, from the history of the strokes to aspects of modern Olympic competition, as well as the author's personal experiences and milestones in the sport.
Author | : Edwin Tenney Brewster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Swimming |
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Author | : William Bachrach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Swimming |
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Author | : Matt Christopher |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2009-12-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316094552 |
With remarks about his small stature and poor swimming skills ringing in his ears, the son of Hungarian immigrants begins to train for the 21-mile swim across a nearby lake.
Author | : John A. Lapointe |
Publisher | : Vantage Press, Inc |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2005-05 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 9780533147670 |
Author | : John Leahy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Swimming |
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