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Genre/Form: | Bok |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicholas Rogers |
ISBN: | 0195168968 9780195168969 |
OCLC Number: | 939151273 |
Description: | x, 198 s. : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Samhain and the Celtic origins of Halloween -- Festive rites : Halloween in the British Isles -- Coming over : Halloween in North America -- Razor in the apple : the struggle for a safe and sane Halloween, c. 1920-1990 -- Halloween goes to Hollywood -- Stepping out -- Border crossings -- Halloween at the millennium. |
Responsibility: | Nicholas Rogers. |
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"This survey of Halloween, its cultural origins and development, will tell you everything you need to know, and possibly more. With a topic this intriguing, the author doesn't need tricks to come up with a treat."-The Montreal Gazette "The best work so far on this increasingly important holiday."-Publishers Weekly "Performs the heroic service of taking all the stuff in stores seriously, as instruments in the creation of a new unreligious holiday of some significance, if the retailers are to be believed.... They say that the devil is in the details, and Rogers is a connoisseur of delicious tidbits of macabre."-New York Times Book Review "Halloween is a rich mix of historical detail and keen cultural observation about the holiday in North America. He reaches far back to the festival's pagan roots and follows its development into a unique celebration of liminality, cultural borrowing, and outrageous invention. Halloween is surely an important contribution to a growing literature that takes seriously our moments of play."-Penne Restad, author of Christmas in America: AHistory "This book paints its subject in very broad strokes, giving us a glimpse of an increasingly significant holiday over a vast expanse of space and time. How delightful, too, to read about an event through a North American, rather than strictly American perspective."-Jack Kugelmass, author of Masked Culture: The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade Read more...


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