02976nam 2200625Ia 450 991078298370332120230721005231.00-8166-6635-0(CKB)1000000000721630(EBL)433180(OCoLC)310982039(SSID)ssj0000176804(PQKBManifestationID)11170569(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176804(PQKBWorkID)10206579(PQKB)11429977(MiAaPQ)EBC433180(MdBmJHUP)muse39274(Au-PeEL)EBL433180(CaPaEBR)ebr10274276(CaONFJC)MIL523185(EXLCZ)99100000000072163020080620d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe immigrant scene[electronic resource] ethnic amusements in New York, 1880-1920 /Sabine HaenniMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20081 online resource (336 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4982-0 0-8166-4981-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 thEthnic theaterNew York (State)New YorkHistory19th centuryEthnic theaterNew York (State)New YorkHistory20th centuryImmigrants in motion picturesMotion picturesUnited StatesEthnic theaterHistoryEthnic theaterHistoryImmigrants in motion pictures.Motion pictures306.48086912097471791.430973Haenni Sabine1484264MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782983703321The immigrant scene3702840UNINA