Dance hall & picture palace : Sydney's romance with modernity

著者

• Matthews, Jill Julius

書誌事項

Dance hall & picture palace : Sydney's romance with modernity

Jill Julius Matthews

Currency Press, 2005

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book paints Sydney between the depressions of the 1890s and the 1930s as a prosperous city riding an international wave of modernism. In the pub, parlour and pulpit, people clashed over the significance of moving pictures, jazz, new dance crazes, the radio, gramophone records and cheap magazines. Conventional accounts of the Australian film industry at the beginning of the twentieth century focus on the impact of Hollywood on local production. But in this vibrant history, the author shows how moving pictures captured the imagination of Sydneys people and transformed how they thought about the world. Jill Julius Matthews describes how in Sydney, as elsewhere, young flappers came to embody both glamour and decadence in modern city life. She uncovers entrepreneurs bribing politicians as they aggressively pursued profits for their American patrons and reveals the innovative marketing techniques that provoked cultural elites to deplore commercialisation.

目次

• Introduction
• Part 1: The Romance of City Life - Modernising Sydney
• The Truth About Modern Girls. Part 2: The Romance of Business - Of Machines & Markets
• The Magnates
• Protecting American Interests. Part 3: The Romance of Civilisation - Heroes of Civilisation
• To Encourage the Good & the Beautiful. Conclusion.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA73341119
• ISBN:
  • 0868197556
• 出版国コード: at
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Sydney
• ページ数/冊数: x, 342 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm