Electric dreamland : amusement parks, movies, and American modernism /

More than two thousand amusement parks dotted the American landscape in the early twentieth century, thrilling the general public with the latest in entertainment and motion picture technology. Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacl...

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Author / Creator: Rabinovitz, Lauren, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
Series:Film and culture.
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505 0 |a Introduction: artificial distractions -- Urban wonderlands: the "cracked mirror" of turn-of-the-century amusement parks -- Thrill ride cinema: Hale's tours and scenes of the world -- The miniature and the giant: postcards and early cinema -- Coney Island comedies: slapstick at the amusement park and the movies -- Conclusion: the fusion of movies and amusement parks -- Appendix: directory of amusement parks in the United States prior to 1915. 
500 |a Includes filmography. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index. 
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