Isles Of Wonder The Cover Story
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Isles Of Wonder The Cover Story
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Author : mason bigelow
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Isles Of Wonder The Cover Story written by mason bigelow and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The London Olympics Of 2012
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Author : Stephen Wagg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-29
The London Olympics Of 2012 written by Stephen Wagg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-29 with Social Science categories.
Analysing the politics of the 2012 London Olympics, Stephen Wagg examines the framing of London's bid to host the Games, arguments about the Games' likely impact and the establishment of 'Fortress London' to protect the Games. The book asks who won, and who lost out, in this important event as well as exploring its media coverage and legacy.
The Cultural Politics Of Austerity
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Author : R. Bramall
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-10-31
The Cultural Politics Of Austerity written by R. Bramall and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with History categories.
This timely book examines austerity's conflicted meanings, from austerity chic and anti-austerity protest to economic and eco-austerity. Bramall's compelling text explores the presence and persuasiveness of the past, developing a new approach to the historical in contemporary cultural politics.
Pageant
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Author : Joan FitzPatrick Dean
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-07-15
Pageant written by Joan FitzPatrick Dean and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Focusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form. By enacting highly selective historical episodes, pageants manipulate audiences' sense of the past. Through iconic music, affecting images, and vernacular forms, pageants express and, in turn, shape religious, civic, or political allegiances. Freely appropriating elements of history plays, patriotic celebrations, opera, and film, pageants create spectacles of sensory overload. Impressive recent scholarship recognizes pageants as public history, but this is the first authoritative account of the origins, characteristics, and techniques of pageants as a theatrical idiom. Performed in sporting arenas, the open air, or purpose-built theatres, these paratheatrical events express identity through what Erika Fischer-Lichte calls “the re-theatricalization of theatre.” Pageants are intimately connected with power-they either assert and celebrate it or seek and demand it. Medieval religious pageants were so popular and powerful that they were suppressed and extinguished. The vogue for pageantry that swept through the English-speaking world in the decade before WWI was closely tied to the expansion of the franchise. Many early twentieth century pageants celebrated localities; others subversively advocated for women's suffrage. First performed in 1909, Cicely Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women depicted historical personages from the near and distant past as well as allegorical figures such as Justice and Prejudice. Today, the Olympic Games mandate an opening ceremony that “details the country's history, culture, and overall importance for the global community.” London delivered just such a pageant in 2012. This book features a wide-ranging introduction that maps the cultural evolution of this enduring theatrical form and covers popular and readily accessible pageants from medieval England, the early twentieth century, and our own day.
Neptune S Children
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Author : Bonnie Dobkin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-10-01
Neptune S Children written by Bonnie Dobkin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A day at the fabled amusement park Isles of Wonder turns deadly when a world-wide biological attack kills every adult, leaving behind only the kids to fend for themselves. Isolated from the world, unsure of what lies ahead, the young survivors assemble under the statue of King Neptune, the mythical ruler of the Isles, to form a new society. Led by the children of the park workers, they choose to remain closed off from the outside world living relatively comfortably inside the self-contained park. But when violence from the infested outside world appears to infiltrate their safe zone, one small group discovers a secret society and a hidden system of underground tunnels, and the stage is set for a war that will determine the future of everyone on the Isles. As alliances are formed and broken, readers will find themselves taking sides in this suspenseful adventure story that addresses the duality of human nature.
Theatre In Market Economies
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Author : Michael McKinnie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-04
Theatre In Market Economies written by Michael McKinnie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-04 with Drama categories.
Explores theatre's relationship with the market economy since the 1990s, from the Third Way to the age of austerity.
The Mackenzie Moment And Imperial History
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Author : Stephanie Barczewski
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-11
The Mackenzie Moment And Imperial History written by Stephanie Barczewski and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-11 with History categories.
This book celebrates the career of the eminent historian of the British Empire John M. MacKenzie, who pioneered the examination of the impact of the Empire on metropolitan culture. It is structured around three areas: the cultural impact of empire, 'Four-Nations' history, and global and transnational perspectives. These essays demonstrate MacKenzie’s influence but also interrogate his legacy for the study of imperial history, not only for Britain and the nations of Britain but also in comparative and transnational context. Written by seventeen historians from around the world, its subjects range from Jumbomania in Victorian Britain to popular imperial fiction, the East India Company, the ironic imperial revivalism of the 1960s, Scotland and Ireland and the empire, to transnational Chartism and Belgian colonialism. The essays are framed by three evaluations of what will be known as 'the MacKenzian moment' in the study of imperialism.
Class And Contemporary British Culture
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Author : A. Biressi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-04-23
Class And Contemporary British Culture written by A. Biressi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-23 with Social Science categories.
How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? How have class-based labels been revived or newly-minted to categorise the insiders and outsiders of the new 'age of austerity'? Drawing on examples from the 1980s to the present day this book investigates the changing landscape of class and reveals how it has become populated by a host of classed figures including Essex Man and Essex Girl, the 'squeezed middle', the 'sharp-elbowed middle class', the 'feral underclass', the 'white working class', the 'undeserving poor', 'selfish baby boomers' and others. Overall, the book argues that social class, although complicated and highly contested, remains a valid and fruitful route into understanding how contemporary British culture articulates social distinction and social difference and the significant costs and investments at stake for all involved.
Haywire
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Author : Andrew Hindmoor
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2024-06-13
Haywire written by Andrew Hindmoor and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-13 with History categories.
‘In this fascinating book, Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the tangled past we have just lived through ... sprinkling wit, insight and analytical verve over his energetic narrative. In contemporary British political history, his will be the distinctive voice of his generation' Peter Hennessy Vladimir Lenin, an occasional resident of North London who went on to other things, has been credited with once saying that there are decades where nothing happens but weeks when decades happen. The first two and a half decades of this century in Britain have had plenty of those weeks. Indeed, our recent history has at times resembled an episode of Casualty, the long-running BBC hospital drama in which every hedge trimmer slips, every gas pipe leaks, every piece of scaffolding collapses and everyone ends up in intensive care. In Haywire Andrew Hindmoor makes sense of the deluge of events which have rained down on Britain since 2000, from the Iraq War to financial collapse, austerity to Brexit, as well as more easily forgotten moments such as the MP’s expenses scandal. He shows not simply how one crisis has quickly followed another, but how each crisis has compounded the next, so that disaster feels like the new normal. Has Britain simply been the victim of a particularly prolonged run of bad luck which will, sooner or later, come to an end? No. Hindmoor argues that the way the British state is organised has, time and again, made a crisis out of a drama – and that it is time to find an alternative before we all go haywire.
A History Of Presque Isle
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Author : Eugene H. Ware
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2013-04
A History Of Presque Isle written by Eugene H. Ware and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04 with History categories.
A history of Presque Isle and Erie from the ice ages to the early 1950s told as in fictionalized conversation between legendary Joe Root and the author.