TY - BOOK ID - 8651251 TI - Fairground attractions PY - 2012 SN - 1849664919 1849666660 9786613479174 1849666679 1283479176 9781849666671 9781283479172 9781849664912 9781849666718 1849666717 9781849664912 9781849666664 PB - London Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. DB - UniCat KW - Amusement parks -- History. KW - Amusement parks -- Social aspects. KW - Fairs. KW - Social Sciences KW - Recreation & Sports KW - Amusement parks KW - Leisure KW - History. KW - Free time (Leisure) KW - Leisure time KW - Funparks KW - Theme parks KW - Recreation KW - Amusements KW - Parks KW - Amusement rides UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8651251 AB - 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, tracing their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture.Though the bricolage of narratives and imagery found in the contemporary leisure zone has been read by many as emblematic of postmodern culture, the author argues that the ER -