| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Mobile metropolis : urban circulation, modern media, moving publics -- A community of consumers : legitimate hybridity, German American theater, and the American public -- The drama of performance : early Italian and Yiddish theatrical cultures -- Filming Chinatown : fake visions, bodily transformations, narrative crises -- Alien intimacies, urban crowds : screening immigrants on Broadway -- Coda : from New York to California |
| Summary |
Yiddish melodramas about the tribulations of immigration. German plays about alpine tourism. Italian vaudeville performances. Rubbernecking tours of Chinatown. In the New York City of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these seemingly disparate leisure activities played similar roles: mediating the vast cultural, demographic, and social changes that were sweeping the nation's largest city. In The Immigrant Scene, Sabine Haenni reveals how theaters in New York created ethnic entertainment that shaped the culture of the United States in the early twentieth century. Considering th |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-307) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnic theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
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Ethnic theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
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Immigrants in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- United States.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Ethnic theater
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Immigrants in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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New York (State) -- New York
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816666355 |
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0816666350 |
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