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Author Schwartz, Rosalie, 1936-

Title Flying down to Rio : Hollywood, tourists, and Yankee Clippers / by Rosalie Schwartz
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations
Series Centennial of flight series ; no. 10
Centennial of flight series ; no. 10.
Contents An entertainment century -- Reflections on wonderlands -- Inventors and entertainers: aviation -- Inventors and entertainers: movies -- Surmountable contradictions -- Lines in the sky -- PAA and RKO: the Rio connection -- Musical fantasies, political realities -- Movies, airplanes, and touristic urges
Summary "In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKO-Radio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio as a point of departure from which to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentieth-century sensibility. The musical comedy connected airplanes, movies, and tourism, ending spectacularly with chorus girls dancing on the wings of airplanes high above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."
"Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers shows the close connection between commerce, aviation, film, and empire. By the end of the twentieth century, reality caught up with and surpassed imagination. Aviation, movies, and mass tourism had become powerful global industries, contributing to an internationally connected, entertainment-oriented culture. What was once unthinkable had now become expected."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-373) and index
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SUBJECT Flying down to Rio (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00057577
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Subject Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Motion picture industry -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Aeronautics -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Tourism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
Aeronautics -- Social aspects
Civilization
Motion picture industry -- Social aspects
Popular culture
International relations
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Territorial expansion
Tourism -- Social aspects
Tourismus
Film
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139942
United States -- Territorial expansion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140559
United States -- Relations -- Latin America
Latin America -- Relations -- United States
United States -- Colonial question. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139972
Subject Latin America
United States
USA
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004003678
ISBN 9781603446341
1603446346
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9781299052659