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Today, we’re going to talk about sideshow in film. There have been dozens of films and television shows to depict circuses and sideshows, but many of them take a rather ungenerous approach to the performers, either pitying them like the exploitation film Chained for Life or demonizing them like Something Wicked This Way Comes. ArtContinue reading “‘Freaks’: Respecting the Performer”