Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader

ISBN-13: 9781312115873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 558 str.

Celia Pearce; Bobby Schweizer; Laura Hollengreen

Opis

Together with the Olympics, worlds fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A Worlds Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on worlds fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate worlds fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of worlds fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the worlds fair itself.