{"product_id":"9780367902803-rise-of-the-spectacular-america-in-the-1950s","title":"Hannigan John - Rise Of The Spectacular America In The 1950s - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: In this prequel to Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis (1998) his acclaimed book about the post - industrial city as a site of theming branding and simulated spaces sociologist John Hannigan travels back in time to the 1950s. Unfairly stereotyped as the tranquillized decade America at mid - century hosted an escalating proliferation and conjunction of spectacular events spaces and technologies. Spectacularization was collectively defined by five features. It reflected and legitimated a dramatic increase in scale from the local\/regional to the national. It was mediated by the increasingly popular medium of television. It exploited middle - class tension between comfortable conformity and desire for safe adventure. It celebrated technological progress boosterism and military power. It was orchestrated and marketed by a constellation sometimes a coalition of entrepreneurs and dream merchants most prominently Walt Disney. In this wide - ranging odyssey across mid - century America Hannigan visits leisure parks (Cypress Gardens) parades (Tournament of Roses) mega - events (Squaw Valley Olympics Century 21 Exposition) architectural styles (desert modernism) innovations (underwater photography circular film projection) and everyday wonders (chemistry sets). Collectively these fashioned the spectacular gaze a prism through which Americans in the 1950s were acculturated to and conscripted into a vision of a progressive technology - based future. Rise of the Spectacular will appeal to architects landscape designers geographers sociologists historians and leisure\/tourism researchers as well as non - academic readers who are by a fascinating era in history.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Rise Of The Spectacular America In The 1950s\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Hannigan John\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780367902803\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 184 Pages, 2 Tables, Black And White; 12 Halftones, Black And White; 12 Illustrations, Black And Whi\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 8\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Sports \u0026amp; Outdoor Recreation","brand":"Hannigan John","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49595108262193,"sku":"IN-G-9780367902803","price":54.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9780367902803.jpg?v=1753236261","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780367902803-rise-of-the-spectacular-america-in-the-1950s","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}