Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity by Lauren Rabinovitz

Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity

Film and Culture Series

Lauren Rabinovitz

237 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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