Description: Further DetailsTitle: Weird and WonderfulCondition: NewSubtitle: The Dime Museum in AmericaISBN-10: 0814718868EAN: 9780814718865ISBN: 9780814718865Publisher: New York University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/01/1997Description: Dioramas and panoramas, freaks and magicians, waxworks and menageries, obscure relics and stuffed animals--a dazzling assortment of curiosities attracted the gaze of the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum. This distinctly American phenomenon was unprecedented in both the diversity of its amusements and in its democratic appeal, with audiences traversing the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, and class. Andrea Stulman Dennett's Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America recaptures this ephemeral and scarcely documented institution of American culture from the margins of history. Weird and Wonderful chronicles the evolution of the dime museum from its eighteenth-century inception as a "cabinet of curiosities" to its death at the hands of new amusement technologies in the early twentieth century. From big theaters which accommodated audiences of three thousand to meager converted storefronts exhibiting petrified wood and living anomalies, this study vividly reanimates the array of museums, exhibits, and performances that make up this entertainment institution. Tracing the scattered legacy of the dime museum from vaudeville theater to Ripley's museum to the talk show spectacles of today, Dennett makes a significant contribution to the history of American popular entertainment.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 318gAuthor: Andrea Stulman DennettGenre: Music Dance & TheatreTopic: Language & Reference, Society & CultureRelease Year: 1997 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Weird and Wonderful
Title: Weird and Wonderful
Subtitle: The Dime Museum in America
ISBN-10: 0814718868
EAN: 9780814718865
ISBN: 9780814718865
Release Date: 10/01/1997
Release Year: 1997
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 214 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Weird and Wonderful : the Dime Museum in America
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 0.5 in
Subject: Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General, United States / General
Publication Year: 1997
Item Weight: 11.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Andrea Stulman Dennett
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
