The Playful Crowd : : Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century / / John Walton, Gary Cross.
During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for enter...
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Cross, Gary, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Playful Crowd : Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century / John Walton, Gary Cross. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2005] ©2005 1 online resource (352 p.) : ‹B›B&W Photos: ‹/B›1. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Making the Popular Resort: Coney Island and Blackpool about 1900 -- 2. Industrial Saturnalia and the Playful Crowd -- 3. The Crowd and its Critics -- 4. Decline and Reinvention: Coney Island and Blackpool -- 5. The Disney Challenge -- 6. "Enrichment through Enjoyment": The Beamish Museum in a Theme Park Age -- 7. The Crowd Transformed? -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for entertainment and relaxation. However, by the middle of the century, a new type of park began to emerge, providing well-ordered, squeaky-clean, and carefully orchestrated corporate entertainment. Contrasting the experiences of Coney Island and Blackpool with those of Disneyland and Beamish, Gary S. Cross and John K. Walton explore playful crowds and the pursuit of pleasure in the twentieth century to offer a transatlantic perspective on changing ideas about leisure, class, and mass culture. Blackpool and Coney Island were the definitive playgrounds of the industrial working class. Teeming crowds partook of a gritty vulgarity that offered a variety of pleasures and thrills from roller coaster rides and freak shows to dance halls and dioramas of exotic locales. Responding to the new money and mobility of the working class, the purveyors of Coney Island and Blackpool offered the playful crowd an "industrial saturnalia."Cross and Walton capture the sights and sounds of Blackpool and Coney Island and consider how these "Sodoms by the sea" flouted the social and cultural status quo. The authors also examine the resorts' very different fates as Coney Island has now become a mere shadow of its former self while Blackpool continues to lure visitors and offer new attractions. The authors also explore the experiences offered at Disneyland and Beamish, a heritage park that celebrates Britain's industrial and social history. While both parks borrowed elements from their predecessors, they also adapted to the longings and concerns of postwar consumer culture. Appealing to middle-class families, Disney provided crowds a chance to indulge in child-like innocence and a nostalgia for a simpler time. At Beamish, crowds gathered to find an escape from the fragmented and hedonistic life of modern society in a reconstructed realm of the past where local traditions and nature prevail. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Amusement parks Social aspects England History 20th century. Amusement parks Social aspects United States History 20th century. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh Walton, John, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231127240 https://doi.org/10.7312/cros12724 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231502832 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231502832/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Making the Popular Resort: Coney Island and Blackpool about 1900 -- 2. Industrial Saturnalia and the Playful Crowd -- 3. The Crowd and its Critics -- 4. Decline and Reinvention: Coney Island and Blackpool -- 5. The Disney Challenge -- 6. "Enrichment through Enjoyment": The Beamish Museum in a Theme Park Age -- 7. The Crowd Transformed? -- Notes -- Index |
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