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dc.contributor.authorPhilips, Deborah
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-14T14:52:39Z
dc.date.available2022-10-14T14:52:39Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifierONIX_20221014_9781849666671_56
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58725
dc.description.abstractThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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 which are common to carnival sites, tracing 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 argues that 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 conventionalised iconography.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FQ Myth & legend told as fiction
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GM Museology & heritage studies
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies
dc.subject.otherMuseology and heritage studies
dc.titleFairground Attractions
dc.title.alternativeA Genealogy of the Pleasure Ground
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5040/9781849666718
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b
oapen.relation.isbn9781849666671
oapen.relation.isbn9781849666664
oapen.imprintBloomsbury Academic
oapen.pages304
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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