The immigrant scene : ethnic amusements in New York, 1880-1920 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Haenni, Sabine
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]
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.

Table of Contents:

Mobile metropolis : urban circulation, modern media, moving publics
A community of consumers : legitimate hybridity, German American theater, and the American public
The drama of performance : early Italian and Yiddish theatrical cultures
Filming Chinatown : fake visions, bodily transformations, narrative crises
Alien intimacies, urban crowds : screening immigrants on Broadway
Coda : from New York to California.