アミューズメントパーク：英国を中心に歴史、文化と遺産を考える The Amusement Park : History, Culture and the Heritage of Pleasure (Heritage, Culture and Identity)

Wood, Jason (EDT)

Routledge（2018/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367022709
• DDC分類 791.068

Full Description

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

Contents

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