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 heade.
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Walton, John. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, 2005. |
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Making the Popular Resort: Coney Island and Blackpool About 1900
- 2. Industrial Saturnalia and the Playful Crowd
- 3. The Crowd and its Critics
- 4. Decline and Reinvention: Coney Island and Blackpool
- 5. The Disney Challenge
- 6. "Enrichment through Enjoyment": The Beamish Museum in a Theme Park Age
- 7. The Crowd Transformed?
- Notes
- Index