Entertainment, Leisure and Identities.

This wide-ranging collection of essays seeks to challenge the âcommon-senseâ assumption that entertainment activities have no function but to fill up otherwise empty moments. As such it builds on the term â" coined by the Victorians â" âRecreation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Roger Spalding and Alyson Brown (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007.
Temas:
Leisure > Great Britain > History.
Leisure > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Amusements > Great Britain > History.
Amusements > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Loisir > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Loisirs > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
The self, ego, identity, personality.
Sociology: sport & leisure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Amusements
Amusements > Social aspects
Leisure
Leisure > Social aspects
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Animals, leisure and status: some aspects of pet-keeping in the Middle Ages / John Simons
  • Molyneux
  • "Munix" the dancing man / Michael Hayes
  • Contemporary carnival: Blackpool and the symbolic suspension of real-life / Jill Fernie-Clark
  • Policeman on the case: Early chess in Lancashire and the Preston Guardian chess column 1879-83 / Tim Harding
  • Identifying the British yachtsman, 1815 to 1939 / Roger Ryan
  • "Wonders in nature and art": Reynold's Museum of Curiosity and the Lime Street entertainment industry in Liverpool, 1860-1900 / Vaness Toulmin
  • Popular theatre and revolutionary identity: Anarchist and communist culture in Paris, 1900-1934 / The Last Adventurers: a case study of British cinema and the creation of identity in the 1930s / Roger Spalding
  • "Doing the right thing": Harry Belafonte as a political and civil rights activist / Kevern Verney.

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