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

• Autore: Haenni Sabine
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.48086912097471; 791.430973
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The immigrant scene
• ISBN: 0-8166-6635-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782983703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II