The Playful Crowd :
Cross, Gary.
The Playful Crowd : Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century. - 1 online resource (321 pages)
Intro -- 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.
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 heade.
9780231502832
Amusement parks - Social aspects - England - History - 20th century.
Electronic books.
GV1851.A35
791
The Playful Crowd : Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century. - 1 online resource (321 pages)
Intro -- 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.
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 heade.
9780231502832
Amusement parks - Social aspects - England - History - 20th century.
Electronic books.
GV1851.A35
791