The immigrant scene
Subtitle: ethnic amusements in New York, 1880-1920
By: Sabine Haenni.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780816649815; 9780816649822
Subjects: Ethnic theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century; Ethnic theater -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Immigrants in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mobile metropolis : urban circulation, modern media, moving publics; title: A community of consumers : legitimate hybridity, German American theater, and the American public; title: The drama of performance : early Italian and Yiddish theatrical cultures; title: Filming Chinatown : fake visions, bodily transformations, narrative crises; title: Alien intimacies, urban crowds : screening immigrants on Broadway; title: Coda : from New York to California.