Inventing Times Square : commerce and culture at the crossroads of the world

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Inventing Times Square : commerce and culture at the crossroads of the world

edited by William R. Taylor

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed

  • : pbk

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Originally published: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c1991

Based on a series of six conferences held during 1988-89, sponsored by the New York Institute for the Humanities, at New York University

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-424) and index

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内容説明

A unique volume, Inventing Times Square approaches the subject of twentieth-century American city culture through a multidimensional examination of one quintessential urban space: Times Square. Ranging in time from 1905, when the crossroad was given its present name, through to the current plans for redevelopment, the authors examine Times Square as economic hub, real estate bonanza, entertainment center, advertising medium, architectural experiment, and erotic netherworld. Though the volume centers on Times Square, the essays venture much further into urban history and American social history, revealing in the process how Times Square reflected-even epitomized-America as it became an urban consumer culture.

目次

Acknowledgments Photographs Introduction Prologue Part I: Structural Changes Introductory Essay Chapter 1. Developing for Commercial Culture Chapter 2. Uptown Real Estate and the Creation of Times Square Chapter 3. Urban Tourism and the Commercial City Chapter 4. The Discipline of Amusement Chapter 5. Brokers and the New Corporate, Industrial Order Part II: Entertainment and Commerce Introductory Essay Chapter 6. Vaudeville and the Transformation of Popular Culture Chapter 7. The Syndicate/Shubert War Chapter 8. Impresarios of Broadway Nightlife Chapter 9. The Entertainment District at the End of the 1930s Chapter 10. Irving Berlin: Troubadour of Tin Pan Alley Chapter 11. Broadway: The Place that Words Built Part III: Commercial Aesthetics Introductory Essay Chapter 12. New York's Gigantic Toy Chapter 13. Joseph Urban Part IV: Boundaries of Respectability Introductory Essay Chapter 14. Policing of Sexuality Chapter 15. The Policed: Gay Men's Strategies of Everyday Resistance Chapter 16. Private Parts in Public Places Afterword Notes Contributors Index

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