For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-century ChicagoRutgers University Press, 1998 - 233 páginas "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. |
Conteúdo
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Women and Sightseeing | 13 |
The 1893 Chicago Worlds | 47 |
Charles Graham On Cairo Street and In the Electricity Building | 64 |
State Street Chicago | 70 |
The Animated Poster Edison Manufacturing Company 1903 | 81 |
A Kiss in the Dark American Mutoscope Biograph 1904 | 87 |
The Teddy Bears Edison Manufacturing Company 1907 | 93 |
White City Amusement Park | 140 |
15 | 145 |
Penny Arcade Hales Tours of the World and Merry Go Round | 146 |
Racing Chutes at Dreamland American Mutoscope | 155 |
Boarding School Girls Edison Manufacturing Company 1905 | 162 |
CONCLUSION | 178 |
47 | 192 |
Cinema at the Amusement Park | 208 |
The Kleptomaniac Edison Manufacturing Company 1905 | 99 |
Movies and Their Places | 103 |
John Sloan Movies Five Cents 1907 | 113 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 215 |
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