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
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed
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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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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