Eric Ames

Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eric Ames is assistant professor of German at the University of Washington.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 215mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 940g
• ISBN-13: 9780295988337
• ISBN-10: 0295988339
• Artikelnr.: 23819267

Autorenporträt

Eric Ames is assistant professor of German at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Color Plates
Introduction: Under the Sign of Hagenbeck
1. The Business of Collecting
Vertical Integration
The Context of the Wild Animal Trade
The Task of the Traveler
Selection, Negotiation, and Professionalization
Cultural Displacement
2. The Living Habitat
"Anthropological-Zoological Exhibitions"
The Art of the Habitat
The Boundaries of Display
Sex, Race, and Colonial Authority
3. Hagenbeck's Turn to Fiction
The Wild West in Germany
"Carl Hagenbeck's India"
Enter the Realm of Fantasy
4. The Art of Hagenbeck's Zoo
"The New Panorama"
Labor, Landscape, and Sculpture
The Park as "Panorama"
The Treatment of Place
The Amusement Park Sublime
The Alterity of the Tierpark
5. The Park and the Cinema
The Image as Shared Space
The Set as Collection
The Park as Film Studio
Conclusion: The Future of Nineteenth-Century Theme Space
Notes
Works Cited
Index