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Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity Paperback - 2012
by Lauren Rabinovitz
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- Title Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
- Author Lauren Rabinovitz
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2012-07-24
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780231156615 / 0231156618
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.52 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs -, Motion pictures - Social aspects - United
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012011284
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.068
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Paperback / softback. New. Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, 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, amusement parks tempered the shocks of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict while shrinking the distinctions between gender and class. Following 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. Critics of the time often condemned parks and movies for inciting moral decline, yet in fact they fostered women's independence, racial uplift, and assimilation. The rhythmic, mechanical…
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