Fairground Attractions A Genealogy of the Pleasure Ground
| Author/creator | Philips, Deborah Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Gordonsville : Macmillan [Distributor] |
| Description | 304 p. ill 09.210 x 06.140 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation The study investigates the cultural production of the visual iconography of popular pleasure grounds from the eighteenth century pleasure garden to the contemporary theme park. Deborah Philips identifies the literary genres, including fairy tale, gothic horror, Egyptiana and the Western whichare common to carnival sites and traces their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture. Though the bricolage of narratives and imagery found in the contemporary leisure zone has been read by many as emblematic of postmodern culture, the author arguesthat the clash of genres and stories is less a consequence of postmodern pastiche than it is the result of a history and popular tradition of conventionalized iconography. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781849664912 |
| ISBN | 1849664919 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781849664912 |
| Stock number | 00144959 |