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From Sideshow to Centre Ring: The Historiography of Popular Entertainment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2023

Laurence Senelick
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Abstract

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The academic interest in popular entertainment was long retarded by a class attitude that regarded it as a cultural phenomenon of inferior quality. Those who researched it were collectors and enthusiasts rather than professional scholars. The disdain of the Frankfurt School was also a factor. In the 1960s, with the rise of leisure studies and a Marxist-inflected interest in working-class culture, this began to change. The study of popular forms is now an accepted, even dominant part of the humanities curriculum, though still occasionally tinged with apology.

Keywords

historiographypopular entertainmentleisure studiesFrankfurt Schoolcultural valuesboundaries
Type
Research Article
Information
New Theatre Quarterly , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , August 2023 , pp. 272 - 279
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© Cambridge University Press, 2023