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As America slowly relaxed its moral codes in the post war era, the pulp novels of the paperback racks offered an initiation of the previously hidden demi-mondes of sex and hedonistic excess. Pulp Postcards gathers together the starlets and the most daring of these jackets.
The National Pageant of Wales took place in Cardiff's Sophia Gardens, causing a flurry of media excitement. This book presents an account of the staging of the Pageant in 1909, accompanied by numerous photographs showing the players in costume.
Since its inception in 1946, the Cannes Film Festival has embraced the high-brow and the high-glam. Who is not familiar with Cannes' famous paparazzi scrums, beachfront happenings and world premieres? But, the history of Cannes is also famous for scandals and controversies. This title reveals tales from this festival's spectacular history.
From its early days on a small beach in San Francisco in the 1980s, the Burning Man festival has evolved into a temporary city, in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. Each year, Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man, announces a theme for the event. Here, a photographer offers a photographic document of this work.
An inroduction to everything you need to know about the Royal National Eisteddfod. A Welsh competitive festival, with contests in the arts and crafts, with emphasis on music and poetry, the Eisteddfod is important in maintaining national feeling and preserving the Welsh language and culture
Book XIV of Martial's epigrams, the Apophoreta , comprising of poetic couplets, is a source of information about one of the principal Roman festivals and about many everyday objects of first-century Rome. This book examines literary, linguistic and textual matters, and the work's social context.
This book defines the history of fairground carving and painted imagery in Britain, America and Europe.