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

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

Rabinovitz, Lauren

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AnthropologyGeneral United States HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0813525349
ISBN13: 9780813525341
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: May 1 1998
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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