The immigrant scene : ethnic amusements in New York, 1880-1920 / Sabine Haenni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haenni, Sabine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Ethnic theater.

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

Immigrants in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6635-0

OCLC:

310982039