Freak Show Legacies
How the Cute, Camp and Creepy Shaped Modern Popular Culture
Society has long been fascinated with the freakish, shocking and strange. In this book Gary Cross shows how freakish elements have been embedded in modern popular culture over the course of the 20th century despite the evident disenchantment with this once widespread cultural outlet. Exploring how the spectacle of freakishness conflicted with genteel culture, he shows how the condemnation of the freak show by middle-class America led to a transformation and merging of genteel and freak culture through the cute, the camp and the creepy. Though the carnival and circus freak was marginalised by the 1960s and had largely disappeared by the 1980s,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-14515-3
- EAN: 9781350145153
- Produktnummer: 36109253
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 19'208 KB
- Abbildungen: 30 bw illus
Über den Autor
Gary S. Cross is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is the author of several books including Machines of Youth: America's Car Obsession, Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism, and The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture.
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