The Playful Crowd
Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Walton, John (University of Central Lancashire)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-12724-0
- EAN: 9780231127240
- Produktnummer: 1150802
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H18.7 cm x B30.5 cm x D2.4 cm 618 g
- Gewicht: 618
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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Gary Cross and John K. Walton
2 weitere Werke von Cross, Gary (Distinguished Professor of Modern History, Pennsylvania State University):
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