What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? Cheap Amusements is a fasc

The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turn-of-the-century.

The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shif

Have records, compact discs, and other sound reproduction equipment merely provided American listeners with pleasant diversions, or have more important historic

Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship bet