The playful crowd : pleasure places in the twentieth century /

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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 enter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Cross, Gary S. (Autor), Walton, John K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2005]
Temas:
1900-1999
Amusement parks > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Amusement parks > Social aspects > England > History > 20th century.
PERFORMING ARTS > Business Aspects.
TRAVEL > Amusement & Theme Parks.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Amusement parks > Social aspects
Arbeidersklasse.
Vrije tijd.
Pretparken.
England
United States
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Making the popular resort: Coney Island and Blackpool about 1900
  • Industrial Saturnalia and the playful crowd
  • The crowd and its critics
  • Decline and reinvention: Coney Island and Blackpool
  • The Disney challenge
  • "Enrichment through enjoyment": the Beamish Museum in a theme park age
  • The crowd transformed?

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