عنوان

Electric dreamland :

(Number (ISBN

0231527217

(Number (ISBN

9780231527217

Erroneous ISBN

9780231156608

Erroneous ISBN

9780231156615

Title Proper

Electric dreamland :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

amusement parks, movies, and American modernism /

First Statement of Responsibility

Lauren Rabinovitz.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Columbia University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2012.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations.

Series Title

Film and culture

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: artificial distractions -- Urban wonderlands: the "cracked mirror" of turn-of-the-century amusement parks -- Thrill ride cinema: Hale's tours and scenes of the world -- The miniature and the giant: postcards and early cinema -- Coney Island comedies: slapstick at the amusement park and the movies -- Conclusion: the fusion of movies and amusement parks -- Appendix: directory of amusement parks in the United States prior to 1915.

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More than two thousand amusement parks dotted the American landscape in the early twentieth century, thrilling the general public with the latest in entertainment and motion picture technology. Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals to sense, interpret, and embody a burgeoning national identity. As industrialization, urbanization, and immigration upended society before World War I, amusement parks tempered the shocks of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict while shrinking the distinctions between gender and class. As she follows the rise of American parks from 1896 to 1918, Rabinovitz seizes on a simultaneous increase in cinema and spectacle audiences and connects both to the success of leisure activities in stabilizing society.

Title

Electric dreamland.

Amusement parks-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Motion pictures-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Amusement parks.

Manners and customs.

Motion pictures-- Social aspects.

PERFORMING ARTS-- Business Aspects.

TRAVEL-- Amusement & Theme Parks.

United States, Social life and customs, 20th century.

United States.

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7

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TRV-- 029000

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Rabinovitz, Lauren,1950-

Date of Transaction

20200822103521.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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