Fairground Attractions: A Genealogy of the Pleasure Ground

by Deborah Philips

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 and traces their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture.Though the bricolage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849664919
• ISBN13: 9781849664912
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"