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Electric dreamland : = amusement parks, movies, and American modernity /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Electric dreamland :/ Lauren Rabinovitz.
Reminder of title:	amusement parks, movies, and American modernity /
Author:	Rabinovitz, Lauren,
Published:	New York :Columbia University Press, : c2012. ,
Description:	xiii, 237 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
Subject:	Amusement parks - History - 20th century. - United States -
Subject:	United States - Economic policy - 1981-1993 -
ISBN:	023115660X (hbk.) :

Electric dreamland : = amusement parks, movies, and American modernity /
Rabinovitz, Lauren,1950-

Electric dreamland :amusement parks, movies, and American modernity /Lauren Rabinovitz. - New York :Columbia University Press,c2012. - xiii, 237 p. :ill. ;24 cm. - Film and culture . - Film and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references, filmoagrphy and index.

Introduction : artificial distractions --

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.

ISBN: 023115660X (hbk.) :US82.50

LCCN: 2012011284 Subjects--Topical Terms:

1576716
Amusement parks
--History--United States--20th century. Subjects--Geographical Terms:

554129
United States
--Economic policy--1981-1993

LC Class. No.: GV1853.2 / .R34 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 791.06/8730904

Electric dreamland : = amusement parks, movies, and American modernity /
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