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Amusement Park: History, Culture and the Heritage of Pleasure [Minkštas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 296 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 453 g, 1 Tables, black and white; 70 Halftones, black and white; 70 Illustrations, black and white
  • Serija: Heritage, Culture and Identity
  • Išleidimo metai: 29-Nov-2018
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367022702
  • ISBN-13: 9780367022709
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 296 pages, aukštis x plotis: 234x156 mm, weight: 453 g, 1 Tables, black and white; 70 Halftones, black and white; 70 Illustrations, black and white
  • Serija: Heritage, Culture and Identity
  • Išleidimo metai: 29-Nov-2018
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0367022702
  • ISBN-13: 9780367022709
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:

Jason Wood is Director of Heritage Consultancy Services, Lancaster, UK, and former Professor of Cultural Heritage at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

Recenzijos

"I have no hesitation in proclaiming that this is the finest collection of essays ever produced on this subject, offering a worldwide perspective on the history of, and issues concerning, amusement parks." Allan Brodie, Journal of Tourism History (2020)

List of figures
ix
Notes on contributors xii
Preface and acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1(2)
1 Fair grounds for debate: Celebrating the heritage of amusement parks
3(26)
Jason Wood
PART I Development of the amusement park in Britain
29(46)
2 Mechanical pleasures: The appeal of British amusement parks, 1900--1914
31(26)
Josephine Kane
3 From Battersea to Alton Towers: In search of the Great British theme park
57(18)
Ian Trowell
PART II International case histories
75(102)
4 The heritage of public space: Bondi Beach, Luna Park and the politics of amusement in Sydney
77(21)
Caroline Ford
5 The Turkish amusement park: Modernity, identity and cultural change in the early Republic
98(22)
Jason Wood
B. Nilgon Oz
6 Knott's Berry Farm: The improbable amusement park in the shadow of Disneyland
120(18)
Gary Cross
7 The dilemma of the crowd: Atlantic City's Steel Pier, George Hamid, and leisure and urban space in post-civil rights America
138(22)
Bryant Simon
8 The Parque de Atracciones de Vizcaya, Artxanda, Bilbao: Provincial identity, paternalistic optimism and economic collapse, 1972--1990
160(17)
John K. Walton
PART III Cultural significance, revival and heritage protection
177(91)
9 Last night of the fair: Heritage, resort identity and the closure of South port's Pleasureland
179(24)
Anya Chapman
Duncan Light
10 Delivering the dream: Saving Britain's amusement park heritage and the reawakening of Margate's Dreamland
203(25)
Nick Laister
11 Designing the past: Implications of a new vision for Dreamland
228(20)
Eleanor Mcgrath
12 The designation of amusement parks and fairground rides in England
248(20)
Allan Brodie
Roger Bowdler
Select bibliography 268(4)
Index 272
Jason Wood is Director of Heritage Consultancy Services, Lancaster, UK, and former Professor of Cultural Heritage at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.