Pageant by Joan FitzPatrick Dean, Simon Shepherd - 9781350144521

Name: Pageant by Joan FitzPatrick Dean, Simon Shepherd - 9781350144521
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

PageantAuthor(s): Joan FitzPatrick Dean, Simon Shepherd\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Methuen Drama\nISBN-13: 9781350144521, 978-1350144521\nSynopsis\nFocusing on examples from medieval theatre, womens suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form.\n\n 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 .