Pageants and processions : images and idiom as spectacle /

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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Du Toit, Herman C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Subjects:
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.
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