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 headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for enter...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Walton, John K., author. |
| Format: | eBook Électronique |
| Langue: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, [2005] |
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Table des matières:
- 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