For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago by Rabinovitz, Lauren

For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813525341)

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For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago by Rabinovitz, Lauren

For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

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For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago by Rabinovitz, Lauren

For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago

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Format: Paperback
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"One of the most readable books on early cinema I have ever encountered. . . . Rabinovitz ably brings together a wealth of information about the exciting era of social change that marked the beginning of U.S. cinema."
--Gaylyn Studlar, atuhor of This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age

The period from the 1880s until the 1920s saw the making of a consumer society, the inception of the technological, economic, and social landscape in which we currently live. Cinema played a key role in the changing urban landscape. For working-class women, it became a refuge from the factory. For middle-class women, it presented a new language of sexual danger and pleasure. Women found greater freedom in big cities, entering the workforce in record numbers and moving about unchaperoned in public spaces. Turn-of-the-century Chicago surpassed even New York as a proving ground for pleasure and education, attracting women workers at three times the national rate. Using Chicago as a model, Lauren Rabinovitz analyzes the rich interplay among demographic, visual, historical, and theoretical materials of the period. She skillfully links cinema theory and women's studies for a fuller understanding of cultural history. She also demonstrates how cinema dramatically affected social conventions, ultimately shaping modern codes of masculinity and feminity.

Author: Lauren Rabinovitz
ISBN-10: 0813525349
ISBN-13: 9780813525341
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1998
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.08w x 0.74d
By Lauren Rabinovitz
By Lauren Rabinovitz
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LAUREN RABINOVITZ is Professor of American Studies and Cinema at the University of Iowa. She is the author of For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago and coeditor of Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays, published by Duke University Press.

ABRAHAM GEIL is an instructor in media history at the New School University in New York City.

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