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For the Love of Pleasure
Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
Lauren Rabinovitz (Author)
9780813525341
Paperback / softback, published 1 May 1998
256 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.367 kg
--Gaylyn Studlar, atuhor of This Mad Masquerade: Stardom and Masculinity in the Jazz Age
The period from the 1880s until the 1920s saw the making of a consumer society, the inception of the technological, economic, and social landscape in which we currently live. Cinema played a key role in the changing urban landscape. For working-class women, it became a refuge from the factory. For middle-class women, it presented a new language of sexual danger and pleasure. Women found greater freedom in big cities, entering the workforce in record numbers and moving about unchaperoned in public spaces. Turn-of-the-century Chicago surpassed even New York as a proving ground for pleasure and education, attracting women workers at three times the national rate. Using Chicago as a model, Lauren Rabinovitz analyzes the rich interplay among demographic, visual, historical, and theoretical materials of the period. She skillfully links cinema theory and women's studies for a fuller understanding of cultural history. She also demonstrates how cinema dramatically affected social conventions, ultimately shaping modern codes of masculinity and feminity.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One: Women and Sightseeing
Two: Movies and Their Places of Amusement
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
General Index
Film Index