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The Playful Crowd : Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century by Cross, Gary S.; Walton, John K is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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From "Sodoms by the sea" at Coney Island and Blackpool to carefully orchestrated corporate entertainment, __The Playful Crowd__ compares the pursuit of pleasure on both sides of the Atlantic. The authors capture the gritty vulgarity and charms of Coney Island and Blackpool and examine how Disneyland and Beamish, a heritage park that celebrates Britain's industrial and social history, evoke certain types of nostalgia. 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 ma
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- Author
- Cross, Gary S.; Walton, John K
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231502832
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Travel, Science
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