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oapen-20.500.12657-587252022-10-15T03:18:13Z Fairground Attractions Philips, Deborah Museology and heritage studies bic Book Industry Communication::F Fiction & related items::FQ Myth & legend told as fiction bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GM Museology & heritage studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies 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. 2022-10-14T14:52:39Z 2022-10-14T14:52:39Z 2012 book ONIX_20221014_9781849666671_56 9781849666671 9781849666664 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58725 eng application/pdf n/a 9781849666671.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781849666718 10.5040/9781849666718 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781849666671 9781849666664 Bloomsbury Academic 304 London open access
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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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