Playful Crowd Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century

Name: Playful Crowd Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780231127240

ISBN-10: 0231127243

ISBN-13: 9780231127240

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gary Cross, John Walton, Gary Cross

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During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for entertainment and relaxation. However, by the middle of the century, a new type of park began to emerge, providing well-ordered, squeaky-clean, and carefully orchestrated corporate entertainment. Contrasting the experiences of Coney Island and Blackpool with those of Disneyland and Beamish, Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton explore playful crowds and the pursuit of pleasure in the twentieth century to…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 10/18/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 7.32" wide x 8.86" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.430

Timothy J. Motley is associate professor in the Collum Program for Molecular Systematics at The New York Botanical Garden.Nyree Zerega is the director of the Plant Biology and Conservation Program at Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden.Hugh Cross is a postdoctoral researcher at the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden University.




Making the popular resort : Coney Island and Blackpool about 1900



Industrial saturnalia and the playful crowd



The crowd and its critics



Decline and reinvention : Coney Island and Blackpool



The Disney challenge



"Enrichment through enjoyment" : the Beamish museum in a theme park age



The crowd transformed?