Pageants And Processions : Images And Idiom As Spectacle.

Nowadays pageants often take the form of parades of effervescent young women competing for popular recognition in hyped up media events. However, these "beauty pageants" are a mere pastiche of the elaborate historical parades of the medieval period that took significant, social, religious,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Herman Du Toit (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2009.
Temas:
Civilization, Medieval.
Pageants > History.
Pageants > Social aspects.
Processions > History.
Processions > Social aspects.
Theater > History.
Civilisation médiévale.
Spectacles historiques > Histoire.
Spectacles historiques > Aspect social.
Défilés > Histoire.
Défilés > Aspect social.
Théâtre > Histoire.
Civilization, Medieval
Pageants
Processions
Theater
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Nowadays pageants often take the form of parades of effervescent young women competing for popular recognition in hyped up media events. However, these "beauty pageants" are a mere pastiche of the elaborate historical parades of the medieval period that took significant, social, religious, or civic events and their protagonists, as subjects. Pageants were historically characterized by resplendent costuming and elaborate processions that were often given to much pomp and ceremony. Pageantry ha ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (250 pages)
ISBN:1282481193
9781282481190
9781443815079
1443815071

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