The immigrant scene : ethnic amusements in New York, 1880-1920 /
Yiddish melodramas about the tribulations of immigration. German plays about alpine tourism. Italian vaudeville performances. Rubbernecking tours of Chinatown. In the New York City of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these seemingly disparate leisure activities played similar roles...
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press
©2008.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsqjs |
Obsah:
- Mobile metropolis : urban circulation, modern media, moving publics
- A community of consumers : legitimate hybridity, German American theater, and the American public
- The drama of performance : early Italian and Yiddish theatrical cultures
- Filming Chinatown : fake visions, bodily transformations, narrative crises
- Alien intimacies, urban crowds : screening immigrants on Broadway
- Coda : from New York to California.