FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION: A GENEALOGY OF THE PLEASURE GROUND [SIGNED & INSCRIBED]

PHILIPS, Deborah

ISBN 10: 1849664919 ISBN 13: 9781849664912

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, London & New York, 2012

Language: English

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8vo. pp xi, 292. Colour illustrated boards. Illustrated in black and white throughout. Inscribed by the author to the Finkelstein family "With love to all Finks Deborah X."ISBN: 9781849664912 Very good indeed, head of spine a little thumbed. Seller Inventory # C66256

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Title: FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION: A GENEALOGY OF THE ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, London & New York

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

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This 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.

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Deborah Philips is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the University of Brighton. Her publications include Brave New Causes (with Ian Haywood); Writing Well (with Debra Penman and Liz Linington, and Writing Romance: Women's Fiction 1945-2005.

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