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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Pageant
  name:
    name part: Dean, Joan FitzPatrick
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: London
    publisher: Methuen Drama
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 177 σ. : εικ. ; 20 εκ.
  abstract: "Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form. By enacting highly selective historical episodes, pageants manipulate audiences' sense of the past. Through iconic music, affecting images, and vernacular forms, pageants express and, in turn, shape religious, civic, or political allegiances. Freely appropriating elements of history plays, patriotic celebrations, opera, and film, pageants create spectacles of sensory overload. Impressive recent scholarship recognizes pageants as public history, but this is the first authoritative account of the origins, characteristics, and techniques of pageants as a theatrical idiom. Performed in sporting arenas, the open air, or purpose-built theatres, these paratheatrical events express identity through what Erika Fischer-Lichte calls "the re-theatricalization of theatre." Pageants are intimately connected with power-they either assert and celebrate it or seek and demand it. Medieval religious pageants were so popular and powerful that they were suppressed and extinguished. The vogue for pageantry that swept through the English-speaking world in the decade before WWI was closely tied to the expansion of the franchise. Many early twentieth century pageants celebrated localities; others subversively advocated for women's suffrage. First performed in 1909, Cicely Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women depicted historical personages from the near and distant past as well as allegorical figures such as Justice and Prejudice. Today, the Olympic Games mandate an opening ceremony that "details the country's history, culture, and overall importance for the global community." London delivered just such a pageant in 2012. This book features a wide-ranging introduction that maps the cultural evolution of this enduring theatrical form and covers popular and readily accessible pageants from medieval Eng…
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. The Middle English Noah Pageants -- 2. Counter-Hegemonic Pageantry: A Pageant of Great Women -- 3. Pageant as Mega-Event: Isles of Wonder.
  target audience: general
  note: Joan FitzPatrick Dean.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο.
  subject:
    topic: Σκηνική παρέλαση
    topic: Ιστορία
  subject:
    topic: Δράμα
    topic: Ιστορία και κριτική
  classification: 791.6
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Forms of drama
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Forms of drama
  identifier: 9781350144521
  identifier: 9781350144514
  identifier: 9781350144545
  identifier: 9781350144538
  identifier: 2021938156
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240531
    record change date: 20240531132346.0
    record identifier: 22016849
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre