Burlesque West : Showgirls, Sex, and Sin in Postwar Vancouver /

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"After the Second World War, Vancouver emerged as a hotbed of striptease talent. In Burlesque West, the first critical history of the city's notorious striptease scene, Becki Ross delves into the erotic entertainment industry at the northern end of the dancers' west coast tour - the N...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ross, Becki, 1959-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Striptease
Nachtleben
Erotischer Tanz
Stripteasers.
Striptease.
Showgirls.
Sex-oriented businesses.
Nightlife.
Burlesque (Theater)
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Industrie pornographique > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vie nocturne > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Danseuses de revue > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Stripteaseuses > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Striptease > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Burlesque (Theâtre) > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vie nocturne > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Histoire.
Danseuses de revue > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Histoire.
Stripteaseuses > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Histoire.
Burlesque (Theâtre) > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver > Histoire.
Nightlife > British Columbia > Vancouver > History.
Showgirls > British Columbia > Vancouver > History.
Stripteasers > British Columbia > Vancouver > History.
Burlesque (Theater) > British Columbia > Vancouver > History.
Sex-oriented businesses > British Columbia > Vancouver > History > 20th century.
Nightlife > British Columbia > Vancouver > History > 20th century.
Showgirls > British Columbia > Vancouver > History > 20th century.
Stripteasers > British Columbia > Vancouver > History > 20th century.
Striptease > British Columbia > Vancouver > History > 20th century.
Burlesque (Theater) > British Columbia > Vancouver > History > 20th century.
Vancouver > British Columbia
British Columbia > Vancouver.
Vancouver (C.-B.) > Histoire.
Vancouver (B.C.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface : beginnings, backlash, and brazenness
  • 1. Uncloaking the striptease past
  • 2. 'I ain't Rebecca, and this ain't Sunnybrook Farm' : men behind the marquee
  • 3. 'We were like snowflakes--no two were alike' : dancers and their gimmicks
  • 4. 'Peelers sell beer, and the money was huge' : the shifting conditions of selling fantasy
  • 5. 'Everyone wanted to date a dancer, nobody wanted to marry one' : occupational hazards in the industry
  • 6. 'You started to feel like a dinosaur' : exiting and aging in the business.

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