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Flying down to Rio : Hollywood, tourists, and Yankee Clippers /
"In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKO-Radio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio as a point of departure from which to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentieth-century sensibility. The musical comedy connected airplanes, mo...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2004.
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| Édition: | 1st ed. |
| Collection: | Centennial of flight series ;
no. 10. |
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- An entertainment century
- Reflections on wonderlands
- Inventors and entertainers: aviation
- Inventors and entertainers: movies
- Surmountable contradictions
- Lines in the sky
- PAA and RKO: the Rio connection
- Musical fantasies, political realities
- Movies, airplanes, and touristic urges.