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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Architecture, media, archives
    sub title: the Fun Palace of Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price as a cultural project
  name:
    name part: Bonet Miró, Ana
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Over sixty years on from its inception, the celebrated Fun Palace civic project, developed in the 1960s by the radical theater director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price, continues to capture the architectural imagination. Despite the building itself never being realized, much of the previous analysis of the Fun Palace has been devoted to Price and his drawings. The critical role that Littlewood played, however, remains largely unrecognized by architectural scholarship, and a whole area of the project's cultural agenda remains overlooked. Architecture, Media, Archives is the first serious study of the complex relations between Littlewood and Price, reframing the Fun Palace as an extended media project and positioning Littlewood more clearly as co-designer. Drawing on extensive archival material, the book considers how, due to a lack of institutional support, the aims of the Fun Palace, to transform the passive mass-audiences of post-war consumer society into active citizens, through forms of self-directed, pleasure-led and open exchange, were realized through different 'sites of information' throughout the 1960s. From broadsheets, pamphlets and journals to films and press news, the book addresses the conditions of production, circulation, storage and reception of these 'sites' and reveals how they not only recorded the transformation of the project, but also fundamentally enhanced and informed its meaning in specific ways. The book also raises important questions about the agency of the Fun Palace archive in shaping the reception of the project in the decades since its inception, presenting its analysis through a novel 'Fun Palace Reception Index and Chart,' fundamentally altering our view of the project itself and transforming the way in which we understand the technological and cultural production of the 1960s.
  table of contents: Introduction: What is the Fun Palace? -- Sigma Portfolio and Bubble City: Ludic Sites for a Mobile Fun Palace Project -- From Filmed Pleasure to Fun Palace -- Grids: Self-Organization and Excess -- Press Cuttings: News from the British 1960s -- Intimate Lines: Joan Littlewood's Memos to Cedric Price -- Journals: An Archive for Stratford Fair -- The Reception of the Fun Palace -- Conclusion: Media as Cultural Production.
  note: Ana Bonet Miró.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Littlewood, Joan
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Price, Cedric
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Theater architecture
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Augmented reality
  classification: PN2598.L577 B66 2024
  classification: 720.92
  identifier: 9781350345362
  identifier: 1350345369
  identifier: 2024405173
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 241203
    record change date: 20250806142425.7
    record identifier: in00005655617