[Reader-list] THE IMMIGRANT SCENE: Ethnic Amusements in New York, Sabine Haenni

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THE IMMIGRANT SCENE: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880-1920
Sabine Haenni
University of Minnesota Press | 336 pages | 2008
ISBN 978-0-8166-4981-5 | hardcover | $75.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4982-2 | paperback | $25.00


Sabine Haenni reveals how theaters in New York created ethnic 
entertainment that shaped the culture of the United States in the early 
twentieth century. In analyzing how communities engaged with immigrant 
theaters and the nascent film culture in New York City, Haenni traces 
the ways in which performance and cinema provided virtual mobility and 
influenced national ideas of immigration, culture, and diversity in 
surprising ways.

"A big, bold, and important book./ The Immigrant Scene/ breaks new 
ground in urban cultural history and performance studies while building 
bridges between earlier works of history and a new generation of 
scholarship. " -Robert W. Snyder, author of/ The Voice of the City: 
Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York/

Sabine Haenni is associate professor in the Department of Theatre, Film, 
and Dance and in the American Studies Program at Cornell University.

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's 
webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/haenni_immigrant.html

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