World of popular entertainments an edited volume of critical essays

"Despite the vibrant, complex, and ubiquitous nature of popular entertainments, the field has suffered from a lack of sustained academic attention. Nevertheless, popular entertainments have a global reach and a transnational significance at odds with the fact that the meaning and definition of...

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Other Authors: Arrighi, Gillian (-), Emeljanow, Victor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub 2012.
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Summary:"Despite the vibrant, complex, and ubiquitous nature of popular entertainments, the field has suffered from a lack of sustained academic attention. Nevertheless, popular entertainments have a global reach and a transnational significance at odds with the fact that the meaning and definition of both 'popular' and 'entertainment' remain widely contested. Since the late-nineteenth century, class-based prejudices in Western culture have championed the superiority of art and literature over the dubious and fleeting pleasures of 'entertainment.' Similarly, the term 'popular' has carried pejorative connotations, indicating something common and outside the conventional and highbrow productions of the purpose-built theatre house or concert hall"--Publisher.
Item Description:"This volume is the direct result of a conference which was hosted by the School of Drama, Fine Art and Music at the University of Newcastle, Australia, in June 2009"-- p. [ix].
Physical Description:xx, 279 p. : ill., port
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.