Pageants and processions: images and idiom as spectacle
Auteur :
du Toit, Herman
ISBN :
9781443812498
Date de publication :
1 sept. 2009
Dimensions :
21,2 x 14,8 cm
Poids :
1456 g
Format :
With dust jacket
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Nowadays pageants often take the form of parades of effervescent young women competing for popular recognition in hyped up media events. However, these ""beauty pageants"" are a mere pastiche of the elaborate historical parades of the medieval period that took significant, social, religious, or civic events and their protagonists, as subjects.