Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity

by Lauren Rabinovitz

Book Overview

Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals to sense, interpret, and embody a burgeoning national identity. As industrialization, urbanization, and immigration upended society, amusement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231156618
• ISBN13: 9780231156615
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher