"One of the most readable books on early cinema I have ever encountered. . . . Rabinovitz ably brings together a wealth of information about the exciting era of social change that marked the beginning of U.S. cinema." --Gaylyn Studlar, atuhor of This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age The period from the 1880s until the 1920s saw the making of a consumer society, the inception of the technological, economic, and social landscape in which we currently live. Cinema played a key role in the changing urban landscape. For working-class women, it became a refuge from the factory. For middle-class women, it presented a new language of sexual danger and pleasure. Women found greater freedom in big cities, entering the workforce in record numbers and moving about unchaperoned in public spaces. Turn-of-the-century Chicago surpassed even New York as a proving ground for pleasure and education, attracting women workers at three times the national rate. Using Chicago as a model, Lauren Rabinovitz analyzes the rich interplay among demographic, visual, historical, and theoretical materials of the period. She skillfully links cinema theory and women's studies for a fuller understanding of cultural history. She also demonstrates how cinema dramatically affected social conventions, ultimately shaping modern codes of masculinity and feminity. Lauren Rabinovitz is a professor of American studies and film studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Points of Resistance: Women, Power, and Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943-71, coauthor of the award-winning CD-ROM The Rebecca Project, and coeditor of Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf War.
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THE CULTURAL MAPPING OF CHICAGO as it attempted to cope with rapid growth between 1880 and 1910 occurred across a wide variety of texts, from etiquette books to cartoons, from novels to newspaper sketches, and from photographs to movies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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THE CULTURAL MAPPING OF CHICAGO as it attempted to cope with rapid growth between 1880 and 1910 occurred across a wide variety of texts, from etiquette books to cartoons, from novels to newspaper sketches, and from photographs to movies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nickel theaters, illustrated travel lecture, consumerist mode, visual agency, cent theaters, chase films, women adrift, visual mastery, early cinema, sexual spectacle, film exchanges, cinema spectator, female shoppers, women shoppers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Mutoscope, Edison Manufacturing Company, Hale's Tours, Chicago Tribune, New York City, State Street, Miss Knapp, Twenty-third Street, Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, Jane Addams, Marshall Field, Court of Honor, United States, Trapeze Disrobing Act, Mimic World, White City, Electricity Building, Midway Plaisance, Peeping Tom, Shooting the Chutes, Thomas Edison, Amy Leslie, Chicago Columbian Exposition, Moving Picture World, Theodore Dreiser New!
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