Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville [[electronic resource] ] : excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure / / David Freeland |
Autore | Freeland David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 974.7/104 |
Soggetto topico |
Historic buildings - New York (State) - New York
Theaters - New York (State) - New York - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Yorks
ghosts lively look nightlife |
ISBN |
0-8147-2854-5
0-8147-2789-1 1-4416-2292-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Round for the Old Atlantic. -- 2 Chinatown Theater. -- 3 A Roof with a View. -- 4 Caretakers of Second Avenue. -- 5 If You Can Make ’Em Cry. -- 6 Tenderloin Winners and Losers. -- 7 A Theater of Our Own. -- 8 Rise and Fall of the Original Swing Street. -- 9 The Strike Invisible. -- 10 Last Dance at the Orpheum. -- 11 Nights of Gladness. (Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe) -- Epilogue -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778329803321 |
Freeland David
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New York, : New York University Press, 2009 | ||
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Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville [[electronic resource] ] : excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure / / David Freeland |
Autore | Freeland David |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 974.7/104 |
Soggetto topico |
Historic buildings - New York (State) - New York
Theaters - New York (State) - New York - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Yorks
ghosts lively look nightlife |
ISBN |
0-8147-2854-5
0-8147-2789-1 1-4416-2292-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 A Round for the Old Atlantic. -- 2 Chinatown Theater. -- 3 A Roof with a View. -- 4 Caretakers of Second Avenue. -- 5 If You Can Make ’Em Cry. -- 6 Tenderloin Winners and Losers. -- 7 A Theater of Our Own. -- 8 Rise and Fall of the Original Swing Street. -- 9 The Strike Invisible. -- 10 Last Dance at the Orpheum. -- 11 Nights of Gladness. (Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe) -- Epilogue -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825870203321 |
Freeland David
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New York, : New York University Press, 2009 | ||
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Bewitching women, pious men [[electronic resource] ] : gender and body politics in Southeast Asia / / edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina |
305.3/0959
305.30959 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OngAihwa
PeletzMichael G |
Soggetto topico |
Sex role - Southeast Asia
Power (Social sciences) - Southeast Asia |
Soggetto non controllato |
analysis
asian culture asian history biology cultural studies essay anthology essay collection eyewitness femininity fieldwork gender construct gender studies gender theory gender ghosts human body indonesia inequality international literary analysis literary criticism malaysia marriage masculinity nature vs nurture philippines political economy singapore southeast asia supernatural thailand transnational true story widow |
ISBN |
1-283-38213-X
9786613382139 0-520-91534-8 0-585-13142-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- ONE. Why Women Rule the Roost: Rethinking Javanese Ideologies of Gender and Self-Control -- TWO Narrating Herself: Power and Gender in a Minangkabau Woman's Tale of Conflict -- THREE. Neither Reasonable nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society -- FOUR. Senior Women, Model Mothers, and Dutiful Wives: Managing Gender Contradictions in a Minangkabau Village -- FIVE. State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies, and the Body Politic in Malaysia -- SIX. State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore -- SEVEN. Alternative Filipina Heroines: Con tested Tropes in Leftist Feminisms -- EIGHT. Attack of the Widow Ghosts: Gender, Death, and Modernity in Northeast Thailand -- NINE. Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778858703321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995 | ||
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Bewitching women, pious men [[electronic resource] ] : gender and body politics in Southeast Asia / / edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina |
305.3/0959
305.30959 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
OngAihwa
PeletzMichael G |
Soggetto topico |
Sex role - Southeast Asia
Power (Social sciences) - Southeast Asia |
Soggetto non controllato |
analysis
asian culture asian history biology cultural studies essay anthology essay collection eyewitness femininity fieldwork gender construct gender studies gender theory gender ghosts human body indonesia inequality international literary analysis literary criticism malaysia marriage masculinity nature vs nurture philippines political economy singapore southeast asia supernatural thailand transnational true story widow |
ISBN |
1-283-38213-X
9786613382139 0-520-91534-8 0-585-13142-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- ONE. Why Women Rule the Roost: Rethinking Javanese Ideologies of Gender and Self-Control -- TWO Narrating Herself: Power and Gender in a Minangkabau Woman's Tale of Conflict -- THREE. Neither Reasonable nor Responsible: Contrasting Representations of Masculinity in a Malay Society -- FOUR. Senior Women, Model Mothers, and Dutiful Wives: Managing Gender Contradictions in a Minangkabau Village -- FIVE. State Versus Islam: Malay Families, Women's Bodies, and the Body Politic in Malaysia -- SIX. State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore -- SEVEN. Alternative Filipina Heroines: Con tested Tropes in Leftist Feminisms -- EIGHT. Attack of the Widow Ghosts: Gender, Death, and Modernity in Northeast Thailand -- NINE. Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813071303321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995 | ||
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Ghost-watching American modernity [[electronic resource] ] : haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination / / María del Pilar Blanco |
Autore | Blanco María del Pilar |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.897 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Comparative literature - American and Latin American Comparative literature - Latin American and American Ghosts in literature Haunted places Landscapes in literature Nationalism in literature Spanish American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Spanish American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
Latin American Literature
U.S. Literature ghosts haunting landscape modernity space |
ISBN |
1-283-57749-6
0-8232-4216-1 9786613889942 0-8232-4217-X 0-8232-4661-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Unsolving Hemispheric Mystery -- 2. Desert Mournings -- 3. Urban Indiscretions -- 4. Transnational Shadows -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788679703321 |
Blanco María del Pilar
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New York, : Fordham University Press, c2012 | ||
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Ghost-watching American modernity : haunting, landscape, and the hemispheric imagination / / María del Pilar Blanco |
Autore | Blanco María del Pilar |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (237 p.) |
Disciplina |
809/.897
809.897 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism Comparative literature - American and Latin American Comparative literature - Latin American and American Ghosts in literature Haunted places Landscapes in literature Nationalism in literature Spanish American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Spanish American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
Latin American Literature
U.S. Literature ghosts haunting landscape modernity space |
ISBN |
1-283-57749-6
0-8232-4216-1 9786613889942 0-8232-4217-X 0-8232-4661-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Unsolving Hemispheric Mystery -- 2. Desert Mournings -- 3. Urban Indiscretions -- 4. Transnational Shadows -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825681703321 |
Blanco María del Pilar
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New York, : Fordham University Press, c2012 | ||
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Ghosts of futures past [[electronic resource] ] : spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America / / Molly McGarry |
Autore | McGarry Molly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
Disciplina | 133.90973/09034 |
Soggetto topico |
Spiritualism - United States - History - 19th century
Religion and culture - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century
academic afterlife american culture american history american spiritualism belief communication cultural history cultural studies faith ghosts immaterial magic marginalized groups marginalized voices material world medium new religion occult otherworldly parlor game political politics religion religious studies scholarly secular secularism social history social studies spirits spiritualism spiritualist spirituality uncanny |
ISBN |
9786612359309
1-282-35930-4 0-520-93406-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Mourning, media, and the cultural politics of conjuring the dead -- Indian guides : haunted subjects and the politics of vanishing -- Spectral sexualities : free love, moral panic, and the making of U.S. obscenity law -- Mediomania : the spirit of science in a culture of belief and doubt -- Secular subjects : a queer genealogy of untimely sexualities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787593603321 |
McGarry Molly
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 | ||
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Ghosts of futures past [[electronic resource] ] : spiritualism and the cultural politics of nineteenth-century America / / Molly McGarry |
Autore | McGarry Molly |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
Disciplina | 133.90973/09034 |
Soggetto topico |
Spiritualism - United States - History - 19th century
Religion and culture - United States - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century
academic afterlife american culture american history american spiritualism belief communication cultural history cultural studies faith ghosts immaterial magic marginalized groups marginalized voices material world medium new religion occult otherworldly parlor game political politics religion religious studies scholarly secular secularism social history social studies spirits spiritualism spiritualist spirituality uncanny |
ISBN |
9786612359309
1-282-35930-4 0-520-93406-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Mourning, media, and the cultural politics of conjuring the dead -- Indian guides : haunted subjects and the politics of vanishing -- Spectral sexualities : free love, moral panic, and the making of U.S. obscenity law -- Mediomania : the spirit of science in a culture of belief and doubt -- Secular subjects : a queer genealogy of untimely sexualities. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827241403321 |
McGarry Molly
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2008 | ||
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Gravesend [[electronic resource] /] / Cole Swensen |
Autore | Swensen Cole <1955-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (97 p.) |
Disciplina | 811/.54 |
Collana | New California poetry |
Soggetto topico | American poetry |
Soggetto non controllato |
advanced poetry
book club reads books by women books for poetry lovers complex poems discussion books easy to read edge of your seat engaging european expansion european history ghost poems ghosts gothic historical history and poetry how to write a poem learning while reading leisure reads page turner paranormal pass on books poetry books poetry techniques pre 21st century stories with poems suspense suspenseful poems understanding poetry vacation books western world history |
ISBN |
1-280-49219-8
9786613587428 0-520-95240-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- One: Have you ever seen a ghost? -- Two: How did Gravesend get its name? -- Three: What do you think a ghost is? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790115703321 |
Swensen Cole <1955->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 | ||
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Gravesend [[electronic resource] /] / Cole Swensen |
Autore | Swensen Cole <1955-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (97 p.) |
Disciplina | 811/.54 |
Collana | New California poetry |
Soggetto topico | American poetry |
Soggetto non controllato |
advanced poetry
book club reads books by women books for poetry lovers complex poems discussion books easy to read edge of your seat engaging european expansion european history ghost poems ghosts gothic historical history and poetry how to write a poem learning while reading leisure reads page turner paranormal pass on books poetry books poetry techniques pre 21st century stories with poems suspense suspenseful poems understanding poetry vacation books western world history |
ISBN |
1-280-49219-8
9786613587428 0-520-95240-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- One: Have you ever seen a ghost? -- Two: How did Gravesend get its name? -- Three: What do you think a ghost is? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820735103321 |
Swensen Cole <1955->
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 | ||
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