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  1. Muße und Gesellschaft
    Contributor: Dobler, Gregor (Publisher); Riedl, Peter Philipp (Publisher)
    Published: 20190628
    Publisher:  Mohr Siebeck

    Leisure (otium) is an unfettered lingering in time set loose from instrumental rationality and utilitarianism. It aims to be free from regimes of time and pressures to perform, that is, it aims at freedom set in time yet not subjected to time's... more

     

    Leisure (otium) is an unfettered lingering in time set loose from instrumental rationality and utilitarianism. It aims to be free from regimes of time and pressures to perform, that is, it aims at freedom set in time yet not subjected to time's dominion. Leisure may hence at first glance appear to be an individual experience and remove individuals from societal constraints, but it is also an eminently social phenomenon. Capacities for successfully claiming spaces of leisure for oneself are distributed in an extremely unequal manner. Freedom for leisure often becomes a defining and fiercely contested feature of specific social roles. This volume, which contains seventeen essays from ten different disciplines, illuminates leisure's societal dimension in varying historical and cultural contexts, while illustrating its symbolic capital in its respective manifestations.

     

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    Contributor: Dobler, Gregor (Publisher); Riedl, Peter Philipp (Publisher)
    Language: German
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-16-155566-4; 9783161555664
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    Subjects: Cultural studies
    Other subjects: Sociology; Leisure
  2. Muße-Diskurse : Russland im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
    Contributor: Cheauré, Elisabeth (Publisher)
    Published: 20190628
    Publisher:  Mohr Siebeck

    The literary discourses of this volume on »Muße«, »dosug«, and »prazdnost'« (leisure) open up new perspectives on the development of Russian culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by means of lexical and semantic approaches, and by... more

     

    The literary discourses of this volume on »Muße«, »dosug«, and »prazdnost'« (leisure) open up new perspectives on the development of Russian culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by means of lexical and semantic approaches, and by probing philosophical, production-aesthetic and socio-historical aspects. In four comprehensive essays emanating from the Slavic studies division of the joint project SFB 1015 »Muße« and its international co-operations, questions of how transferable the phenomenon of »Muße« is to Russian literature and culture are investigated. Discursive processes of the assessment and re-evaluation of work, laziness and leisure can act as indicators for gauging societal processes as much as the condoning or discrediting of »Muße«. Besides the history of mentalities, aesthetic developments and, in particular, the emergence of new literary genres are also included.

     

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    Contributor: Cheauré, Elisabeth (Publisher)
    Language: German
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    ISBN: 978-3-16-155197-0; 9783161551970
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Literature; Leisure; Russian Literature; Russian culture; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
  3. Games Without Frontiers? : Socio-historical Perspectives at the Gaming/Gambling Intersection
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Springer Nature

    This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and gaming, Wardle traces how we got... more

     

    This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and gaming, Wardle traces how we got here. She argues that the intersection between gambling and gaming cultures has a long lineage, one that can be traced back throughout the 20th century but also incorporates more recent trends like the poker boom of the 1990s, the development of social media gambling products and the development of skin betting markets. Underpinned by changing technology, which facilitated new ways to bet, trade and play, the intersection between gaming and gambling cultures and products has accelerated within the last decade – and shows little signs of stopping. Wardle explores what this means for our understanding of risk, how gaming and gambling entities use each other for commercial advantage, and crucially explores what young people think of this, before making recommendations for action.

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 978-3-030-74910-1; 9783030749101
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    Subjects: Sociology; Popular culture; Media studies; Sociology: sport & leisure; Sports & outdoor recreation
    Other subjects: Sociology; Internet; Online; Australia; UK; USA; Reward; Risk; Money; E-sports; Leisure
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (111 p.)
  4. The new mountaineer in late Victorian Britain
    materiality, modernity, and the haptic sublime
    Author: McNee, Alan
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

  5. Die Motivation von Arbeitnehmern im Innen- und Außendienst des Vertriebs
    eine empirische Untersuchung
    Published: 1986
    Publisher:  Lit, Münster

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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 3886603563
    RVK Categories: QP 413
    Series: Betriebswirtschaftliche Schriftenreihe ; 33
    Subjects: Employee motivation; Job satisfaction; Leisure; Personnel management; Arbeitsmotivation; Verkäufer; Vertrieb; Motivation
    Scope: IV, 245 S., graph. Darst.
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    Zugl.: Münster (Westfalen), Univ., Diss., 1986

  6. De otio
    Dial. VIII
    Published: 1983
    Publisher:  Paideia Ed., Brescia

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    Language: Italian
    Media type: Book
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    Series: Testi classici ; 8
    Subjects: Ledigheid; Leisure; Kommentar
    Other subjects: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Philosophus (-65): De otio
    Scope: 283 S.
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    Text lat. u. ital.

  7. Die Motivation von Arbeitnehmern im Innen- und Außendienst des Vertriebs
    eine empirische Untersuchung
    Published: 1986
    Publisher:  Lit-Verl., München

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 3886603563
    RVK Categories: QP 410 ; QP 690 ; QV 584
    Series: Betriebswirtschaftliche Schriftenreihe ; 33.
    Subjects: Employee motivation; Job satisfaction; Leisure; Personnel management; Motivation; Arbeitsmotivation; Verkäufer; Vertrieb
    Scope: IV, 245 S.
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    Zugl.: Münster, Univ., Diss.

  8. The leisure ethic
    work and play in American literature ; 1840 - 1940
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, Calif.

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  9. Arbeit - Freizeit - Muße
    über eine labil gewordene Balance : Symposium der Josef-Pieper-Stiftung, Münster Mai 2014

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Fechtrup, Hermann (HerausgeberIn); Hoye, William J. (HerausgeberIn); Sternberg, Thomas (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: German
    Media type: Conference proceedings
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    ISBN: 9783643128706
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    Corporations / Congresses: Symposion "Arbeit - Freizeit - Muße: Über eine Labil Gewordene Balance" (2014, Münster (Westf))
    Series: Dokumentationen der Josef-Pieper-Stiftung ; Band 8
    Subjects: Leisure; Work; Work-life balance; Generation Y
    Scope: 229 Seiten, Diagramme, 23 cm
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  10. (No) Excuse for idleness: Leisure and idleness in British colonial discourse, c. 1770-1900
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Universität, Freiburg

    Abstract: Für die britische Kolonisierung Indiens sind wenige Identitätskategorien so zentral und analytisch fruchtbar wie die Unterscheidung in "faule Kolonisierte" und "fleißige Kolonisatoren". Was zunächst nach einer binären Logik klingt, spannt... more

     

    Abstract: Für die britische Kolonisierung Indiens sind wenige Identitätskategorien so zentral und analytisch fruchtbar wie die Unterscheidung in "faule Kolonisierte" und "fleißige Kolonisatoren". Was zunächst nach einer binären Logik klingt, spannt auf den zweiten Blick ein weites Feld transkultureller, geschlechtlich und sozial konnotierter Bezüge auf. Waren im 18. Jahrhundert beispielsweise vermeintlich indische Körperpraktiken wie das tägliche Bad und das gesellige Rauchen der Wasserpfeife gängig für britische Kolonialbeamte, wurde die Trennung in europäisch-britische und indische Körper im Laufe des 19. Jahrhundert immer strikter. Zumindest diskursiv kristallisierten sich Aspekte müßigen und tätigen Lebens als Marker sozialer und geschlechtlicher Organisation der kolonialen Gesellschaft heraus. Die Analyse von Reisetagebüchern, Ratgebern und Fotografien zwischen ca. 1770 und 1900 zeigt auf, wie umkämpft und wandelbar Vorstellungen von Muße, Faulheit und Tätigkeit in der Herausbildung der britischen Kolonialherrschaft in Indien waren

     

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    Contributor: Nandi, Miriam (Akademischer Betreuer)
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Leisure; Kolonialismus; Muße; Indien <Motiv>; Postkolonialismus; Kolonialliteratur; Müßiggang; Faulheit <Motiv>; Fotografie; Weibliche Reisende; Reisebericht; Reisefotografie; Eurozentrismus
    Other subjects: (local)doctoralThesis
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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    Dieses Dokument ist gesperrt, neue Version unter IDN 1255199288.

    Dissertation, Universität Freiburg, 2016

  11. (No) Excuse for Idleness: Leisure and Idleness in British Colonial Discourse, c. 1770-1900
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Universität, Freiburg

    Abstract: Für die britische Kolonisierung Indiens sind wenige Identitätskategorien so zentral und analytisch fruchtbar wie die Unterscheidung in "faule Kolonisierte" und "fleißige Kolonisatoren". Was zunächst nach einer binären Logik klingt, spannt... more

     

    Abstract: Für die britische Kolonisierung Indiens sind wenige Identitätskategorien so zentral und analytisch fruchtbar wie die Unterscheidung in "faule Kolonisierte" und "fleißige Kolonisatoren". Was zunächst nach einer binären Logik klingt, spannt auf den zweiten Blick ein weites Feld transkultureller, geschlechtlich und sozial konnotierter Bezüge auf. Waren im 18. Jahrhundert beispielsweise vermeintlich indische Körperpraktiken wie das tägliche Bad und das gesellige Rauchen der Wasserpfeife gängig für britische Kolonialbeamte, wurde die Trennung in europäisch-britische und indische Körper im Laufe des 19. Jahrhundert immer strikter. Zumindest diskursiv kristallisierten sich Aspekte müßigen und tätigen Lebens als Marker sozialer und geschlechtlicher Organisation der kolonialen Gesellschaft heraus. Die Analyse von Reisetagebüchern, Ratgebern und Fotografien zwischen ca. 1770 und 1900 zeigt auf, wie umkämpft und wandelbar Vorstellungen von Muße, Faulheit und Tätigkeit in der Herausbildung der britischen Kolonialherrschaft in Indien waren

     

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    Contributor: Nandi, Miriam (Akademischer Betreuer)
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    Subjects: Leisure; British; Kolonialismus; Muße; Indien <Motiv>; Postkolonialismus; Kolonialliteratur; Müßiggang; Faulheit <Motiv>; Fotografie; Weibliche Reisende; Reisebericht; Reisefotografie; Eurozentrismus
    Other subjects: (local)doctoralThesis
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  12. Arbeit - Freizeit - Muße
    über eine labil gewordene Balance : Symposium der Josef-Pieper-Stiftung, Münster Mai 2014

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    Contributor: Fechtrup, Hermann (HerausgeberIn); Hoye, William J. (HerausgeberIn); Sternberg, Thomas (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: German
    Media type: Conference proceedings
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    ISBN: 9783643128706
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    Corporations / Congresses: Symposion "Arbeit - Freizeit - Muße: Über eine Labil Gewordene Balance" (2014, Münster (Westf))
    Series: Dokumentationen der Josef-Pieper-Stiftung ; Band 8
    Subjects: Leisure; Work; Work-life balance; Generation Y
    Scope: 229 Seiten, Diagramme, 23 cm
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  13. Pleasure in the eighteenth century
    Contributor: Porter, Roy (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Macmillan, Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.]

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    Contributor: Porter, Roy (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0333629760; 0333629779
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    Series: Themes in focus
    Subjects: Pleasure in literature; Literature, Modern; Pleasure in literature; Literature, Modern; Leisure; Pleasure; Hedonism; Arts and society; Popular culture; Great Britain; Leisure; Great Britain
    Scope: XV, 273 S., Ill., Notenbeisp., 22 cm
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    Bibliography: p242-252. - Includes index

    Bibliography: p242-252. - Includes index

  14. Freizeit als Thema theologischer Gegenwartsdeutung
    Contributor: Claudy, Tobias (HerausgeberIn); Roth, Michael (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig

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    Contributor: Claudy, Tobias (HerausgeberIn); Roth, Michael (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 3374022588
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    RVK Categories: BK 3550 ; BL 5700
    Series: Theologie, Kultur, Hermeneutik ; Bd. 1
    Subjects: Leisure; Recreation
    Scope: 243 S., 23 cm
  15. Jane Austen and leisure
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Hambledon Press, London [u.a.]

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 1852851716
    Subjects: Roman; Gesellschaft
    Other subjects: Array; Leisure in literature; Array; Array; Array
    Scope: XXII, 352 S, Ill, 24 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. [331] - 337

    Bibliogr. und Literaturverz. S. [331] - 337

  16. The leisure ethic
    work and play in American literature, 1840 - 1940
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0804733996; 0804734348
    Edition: Orig. print
    Subjects: American literature; Leisure; American literature; Literature and society; Leisure; Recreation in literature; Leisure in literature; Work in literature; Play in literature
    Scope: xviii, 446 S, ill, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-434) and index

  17. The anxieties of idleness
    idleness in eighteenth-century British literature and culture
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Bucknell Univ. Press [u.a.], Lewisburg [u.a.]

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  18. Alternative Verwendungsmöglichkeiten wachsender Freizeit
    ökonomische und sozialpolitische Implikationen
    Published: 1973
    Publisher:  Schwartz, Göttingen

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    ISBN: 3509005910
    RVK Categories: MS 6530 ; QV 350 ; RB 10801
    Series: Schriften der Kommission für Wirtschaftlichen und Sozialen Wandel ; 4
    Subjects: Freizeit; Leisure; Freizeit; Möglichkeit; Freizeitverhalten
    Scope: 165 S., graph. Darst.
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  19. Sportunterricht, Freizeit - und Spitzensport
    Eine Einstellungs- u. Motivanalyse unter bes. Berücks. d. Leistungsprinzips
    Published: 1977
    Publisher:  Kümmerle, Göppingen

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    Media type: Dissertation
    ISBN: 3874523721
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    Series: Göppinger akademische Beiträge. ; 105.
    Subjects: Psychologie; Leisure; Physical education and training; Sports; Sports; Leistungssport; Schulsport; Freizeitsport; Leistungsmotivation; Motivation; Sportunterricht; Sport
    Scope: 364 S.
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    Zugl.: Rheinland, Pädagog. Hochsch., Diss., 1977

  20. Jeux, sports et divertissements au Moyen âge et à l'âge classique
    actes du 116e Congrès national des sociétés savantes, Chambéry, 1991
  21. Freizeit zwischen Ethik und Ästhetik
    Herausforderungen für die Pädagogik, Politik und Ökonomie
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Luchterhand, Neuwied [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 3472029757
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    Series: Jugend, Erziehung, Gesellschaft
    Subjects: Educational psychology; Leisure; Wertwandel; Freizeitverhalten; Ästhetik; Pädagogik; Politik; Freizeitpädagogik; Ethik; Freizeit
    Scope: 304 S., graph. Darst.
  22. The art of the wasted day
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Viking, New York

    "A meditation on the value of daydreaming and ease, and the primacy of the imagination, by one of our finest prose stylists Modern life only seems to become increasingly hectic and stressful, as we try to cram more and more into each day. In her new... more

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    "A meditation on the value of daydreaming and ease, and the primacy of the imagination, by one of our finest prose stylists Modern life only seems to become increasingly hectic and stressful, as we try to cram more and more into each day. In her new book, acclaimed author Patricia Hampl argues for the necessity of daydreaming and leisure in our over-amped lives. Written out of a lifelong fascination with contemplation, solitude, and silence, The Art of the Wasted Day takes the form of a narrative travelogue. Hampl brings the reader on a journey around the world as she visits the homes of several exemplars of leisure from the past, who made repose and seclusion their goal, indeed their art form. She braids her own life stories into these pilgrimages: lazing her days away as a young girl, daydreaming under a beechnut tree; undertaking a retreat at a Benedictine monastery; floating down the Mississippi River in an old cabin cruiser boat, a "sheer, dreamy waste of time" that was the greatest travel experience of her life. Hampl's book is also about someone who wanted to live "the life of the mind," the idea of one's thoughts being a life"...

     

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    ISBN: 9780525429647
    Subjects: Autobiographies / lcgft; Travel writing / lcgft; Poets, American; Fantasy; Leisure
    Other subjects: Hampl, Patricia (1946-)
    Scope: 271 Seiten
  23. Jane Austen and leisure
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Hambledon Press, London

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    ISBN: 9780826446671; 0826446671; 1852851716; 9781852851712
    Subjects: Literature; Loisir dans la littérature; Loisir / Angleterre / Histoire / 18e siècle; Loisir / Angleterre / Histoire / 19e siècle; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Alltag, Brauchtum; Geschichte; Literatur; Wissen; Leisure in literature; Leisure; Leisure; Muße <Motiv>; Roman; Freizeit <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Austen, Jane / 1775-1817 / Et les mœurs et coutumes; Austen, Jane / 1775-1817 / Et l'Angleterre; Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Austen, Jane (1775-1817); Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 352 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-337) and index

  24. Fairground attractions
    a genealogy of the pleasure ground
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub., London

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781849666671; 1849666679; 1283479176; 9781283479172
    Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Amusement parks; Leisure; Geschichte; Amusement parks; Leisure; Freizeitpark; Massenkultur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 292 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Pleasure Gardens, Great Exhibitions and Wonderlands -- - Illustrations and Innovations -- - Mickey Mouse Chivalry -- - Fairy Tale Romance -- - Monsters, Murders and Vampires -- - The Riddles of the Sphinx -- - Boy's Own Stories -- - Treasure Islands and Blue Lagoons -- - Future Imperfect -- - Constructing the Frontier -- - Consuming the West

    "The study investigates the cultural production of the visual iconography of popular pleasure grounds from the eighteenth century pleasure garden to the contemporary theme park. Deborah Philips identifies the literary genres, including fairy tale, gothic horror, Egyptiana and the Western which are common to carnival sites, tracing their historical transition across a range of media to become familiar icons of popular culture.Though the bricolage of narratives and imagery found in the contemporary leisure zone has been read by many as emblematic of postmodern culture, the author argues that the clash of genres and stories is less a consequence of postmodern pastiche than it is the result of a history and popular tradition of conventionalised iconography."--Publisher's description

  25. Social exclusion, power and video game play
    new research in digital media and technology
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Lexington Books, Lanham, MD

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780739138601; 9780739138625
    Subjects: Gesellschaft; Video games; Fantasy games; Role playing; Leisure; Computerspiel; Videospiel; Ausgrenzung
    Scope: xix, 262 p
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    Includes bibliographical references and index