The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)

The Spectacle of Spectatorship in Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’
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The Spectacle of Spectatorship in Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’

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 / 29 April 2021

DeMille’s ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ is about spectacle and how people make a living fabricating gargantuan, silly, and sometimes dangerous fodder for the gawping public.