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26%OFFLauren Rabinovitz - Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity - 9780231156615 - V9780231156615
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Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity

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Description for Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity Paperback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 49 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 356.
Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, 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, amusement parks tempered the shocks of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict while shrinking the distinctions between gender and class. Following the rise of American parks from 1896 to 1918, Rabinovitz seizes on a simultaneous increase in cinema and spectacle audiences and connects both to ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Film and Culture Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231156615
SKU
V9780231156615
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About Lauren Rabinovitz
Lauren Rabinovitz is professor of American studies and cinema at the University of Iowa. She is the author of For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago and Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-garde Cinema, 1943-1971.

Reviews for Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
Electric Dreamland innovatively analyzes the early twentieth-century's twin technological entertainments: amusement parks and motion pictures. It demonstrates how crucial railroads and electricity were to both and how their inextricable development erased conventional notions of urban and rural difference. Amusement parks and motion pictures, Lauren Rabonovitz argues, served as unique venues of mass culture for people to adapt to modernity by ... Read more

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