Pageants and processions : images and idiom as spectacle /

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

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,...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Du Toit, Herman C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Temas:
Pageants > History.
Processions > History.
Pageants > Social aspects.
Processions > Social aspects.
Civilization, Medieval.
Theater > History.
Spectacles historiques > Histoire.
Défilés > Histoire.
Spectacles historiques > Aspect social.
Défilés > Aspect social.
Civilisation médiévale.
Théâtre > Histoire.
Pageants, parades, festivals.
Social & cultural history.
The arts: general issues.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > Stagecraft.
Pageants.
Processions.
Theater.
Prozession
Festumzug
Kunst
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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 (xvi, 234 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443815079
1443815071
1282481193
9781282481190
9786612481192
6612481196

Ejemplares similares