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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454486603321

Autore

Haenni Sabine

Titolo

The immigrant scene [[electronic resource] ] : ethnic amusements in New York, 1880-1920 / / Sabine Haenni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-6635-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

306.48086912097471

791.430973

Soggetti

Ethnic theater - New York (State) - New York - History - 19th century

Ethnic theater - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century

Immigrants in motion pictures

Motion pictures - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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