The Amusement Park

History, Culture and the Heritage of Pleasure
Herausgeber: Wood, Jason

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From the turn of the twentieth century, when amusement parks first sprang up in cities and seaside resorts across Britain, their mixture of fantastical architecture, technology and multi-sensory thrills resulted in an appeal that transcended age, gender and class boundaries fordecades. This international and interdisciplinary collection of original and thought-provoking essays explores the social history and cultural heritage of the amusement park. It examines the notion of modernity and the heyday of the amusement park in the UK, then compares the UK's experience with a range of international cases, before focusing on their decline, demise, cultural significance, heritage and protection.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780367022709
• ISBN-10: 0367022702
• Artikelnr.: 54768196

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Fair grounds for debate: Celebrating the heritage of amusement parks
JASON WOOD
PART I Development of the amusement park in Britain
2 Mechanical pleasures: The appeal of British amusement parks, 1900-1914
JOSEPHINE KANE
3 From Battersea to Alton Towers: In search of the Great British theme park
IAN TROWELL
PART II International case histories
4 The heritage of public space: Bondi Beach, Luna Park and the politics of
amusement in Sydney
CAROLINE FORD
5 The Turkish amusement park: Modernity, identity and cultural change in
the early republic
JASON WOOD AND B. NILGÜN ÖZ
6 Knott's Berry Farm: The improbable amusement park in the shadow of
Disneyland
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
BRYANT SIMON
8 The Parque de Atracciones de Vizcaya, Artxanda, Bilbao: Provincial
identity, paternalistic optimism and economic collapse, 1972-1990
JOHN K. WALTON
PART III Cultural significance, revival and heritage protection
9 Last night of the fair: Heritage, resort identity and the closure of
Southport's Pleasureland
ANYA CHAPMAN AND DUNCAN LIGHT
10 Delivering the dream: Saving Britain's amusement park heritage and the
reawakening of Margate's Dreamland
NICK LAISTER
11 Designing the past: Implications of a new vision for Dreamland
ELEANOR MCGRATH
12 The designation of amusement parks and fairground rides in England
ALLAN BRODIE AND ROGER BOWDLER