Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 204 g
Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 204 g
Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
ISBN: 978-1-138-87841-9
Verlag: Routledge
In Fighting the Flames, Sally contextualizes, historicizes, and theorizes the spectacular performance of fire at turn-of-the-twentieth century Coney Island. The performance of fire included staged exhibits, such as Fire and Flames and Fighting the Flames, and the real fires that plagued its history. While Coney Island placed fire center stage in its fire-based disaster spectacles, fire has continuously burned its own bridge, destroying the producer who wants to make fire the star of his show. The real conflagrations at Coney Island insert precisely what was missing from these staged performances: ephemerality, unpredictability, and newness of the present that serve as metaphors for not only fire but for the development of the metropolis and the advent of modernity.
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- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dedication
Preface
Introduction
Part I
The Spectacular Performance of Fire Fighters and Fire
Chapter 1: Fighting Fire Fighters and the Public Performance of Heroism
Chapter 2: Urban Fire: Tenement Houses and Coney Island as Prometheus
Part II
Introduction: Fighting the Flames on Stage
Chapter 3: Fighting the Flames at Earl’s Court and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Chapter 4: Coney Island and Spectacle as Total-Body Experience
Chapter 5: Fire and Flames and Fighting the Flames at Coney Island
Conclusion: Creative Destruction and Elemental Performativity
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
