Author: R. N. StephensPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Life and Adventures of Steve Brodie, B.J., of the Bowery, New York
Author: R. N. StephensThe Life and Adventures of Steve Brodie, B. J., of the Bowery, New York
Author: Robert Neilson StephensPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Life and Adventures of Steve Brodie, B.J., of the Bowery, New York
Author: R. N. StephensThe Life and Adventures of Steve Brodie, B.J., of the Bowery, New York ...
Author: Robert Neilson StephensPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57
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The Thrill Makers
Author: Jacob SmithPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520952367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Well before Evel Knievel or Hollywood stuntmen, reality television or the X Games, North America had a long tradition of stunt performance, of men (and some women) who sought media attention and popular fame with public feats of daring. Many of these feats—jumping off bridges, climbing steeples and buildings, swimming incredible distances, or doing tricks with wild animals—had their basis in the manual trades or in older entertainments like the circus. In The Thrill Makers, Jacob Smith shows how turn-of-the-century bridge jumpers, human flies, lion tamers, and stunt pilots first drew crowds to their spectacular displays of death-defying action before becoming a crucial, yet often invisible, component of Hollywood film stardom. Smith explains how these working-class stunt performers helped shape definitions of American manhood, and pioneered a form of modern media celebrity that now occupies an increasingly prominent place in our contemporary popular culture.
Crying the News
Author: Vincent DiGirolamoPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195320255
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chroniclingtheir exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Sale
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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