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Flying Down to Rio
Rosalie Schwartz
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Description for Flying Down to Rio
Paperback. Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKO-Radio Pictures production "Flying Down to Rio" to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive 20th-century sensibility. Series: Centennial of Flight Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBT; JFC; TRP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 594.
In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKO-Radio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentieth-century sensibility. The musical comedy connected airplanes, movies, and tourism, ending spectacularly with chorus girls dancing on the wings of airplanes high above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Hollywood fantasy capped three decades during which airplanes and movies engendered new expectations and redefined people's sense of well-being, their personal satisfactions, and their interpersonal relations. Wilbur and Orville Wright flew their airplane in 1903, at the same time that film-makers began to ... Read more
In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKO-Radio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentieth-century sensibility. The musical comedy connected airplanes, movies, and tourism, ending spectacularly with chorus girls dancing on the wings of airplanes high above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Hollywood fantasy capped three decades during which airplanes and movies engendered new expectations and redefined people's sense of well-being, their personal satisfactions, and their interpersonal relations. Wilbur and Orville Wright flew their airplane in 1903, at the same time that film-makers began to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Centennial of Flight Series
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781585444212
SKU
V9781585444212
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About Rosalie Schwartz
Rosalie Schwartz lives and writes in San Diego, California. Two of her previous books, Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba and Lawless Liberators: Political Banditry and Cuban Independence, have won the Hubert Herring Award for best publications on Latin American history.
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