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  Title

  Electric dreamland : amusement parks, movies, and American modernism

  Author

  Rabinovitz, Lauren, 1950-  

  Publisher:

  Columbia University Press,

  Pub date:

  2012.

  Pages:

  xiii, 237 p. :

  ISBN:

  9780231156608

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Aurora Campus.
  

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    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    GV1853.2 .R34 2012	1	Book	Library Display

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  ISBN:

  9780231156608 (cloth : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  023115660X (cloth : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  9780231156615 (pbk. : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0231156618 (pbk. : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  9780231527217 (ebook)

  ISBN:

  0231527217 (ebook)

  029:

  AU@ 000049662433

  029:

  AU@ 000048999050

  029:

  NZ1 14487229

  Personal Author:

  Rabinovitz, Lauren, 1950-

  Title:

  Electric dreamland : amusement parks, movies, and American modernism / Lauren Rabinovitz.

  Publication info:

  New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.

  Physical description:

  xiii, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

  Series Statement:

  (Film and culture)

  General Note:

  Includes filmography.

  Contents:

  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.

  Summary:

  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.

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  Subject term:

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

  Subject term:

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

  Geographic term:

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

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