Electric Dreamland Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity

Name: Electric Dreamland Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
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ISBN: 9780231156615

ISBN-10: 0231156618

ISBN-13: 9780231156615

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lauren Rabinovitz

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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…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments



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


Notes


Films Cited


Selected Bibliography


Index