  Celebrity & Modern LifeThe Advertisement Era
The effect of the automobile on recreational habits was often decried in the 1930's: the substitution of a passive amusement for something more active; standardization and regimentation; the moral problem of the parked sedan and roadside tourist camp. Read More
Radio, Television and Media
Population changes are being paralleled by functional shifts within society, which are likewise reflecting themselves upon the family. Most important of these is the rise of individualism. Read More
BBC vs. American Culture
The first priority for any government was to organize the allocation of frequencies. The method used in practice dictated the shape of the national broadcasting system. From the outset, British broadcasters looked aghast at the American experience and insisted that they would learn from and avoid American mistakes. Read More
Two New Magazines
Atkinson & Alexander published the Saturday Evening Post on 4th August, 1821. It was four page newspaper with no illustrations. By 1920 the Saturday Evening Post had a circulation of over two millions copies a week, and, with its mixture of fiction, current affairs and biographies of public figures, was staple reading for the American middle-class family. The magazine continued to grow in size. Read More
Sports and Mass Media
Throughout all of Europe and the United States, changes in work patterns and new expectations of leisure in the interwar period fueled a demand far leisure that manifested itself in a growing variety of sporting activities. Read More
Babe Ruth and Red Grange
Few adults found themselves able or willing to play football. Although teams made up of former college players were for a time quite active, the game was primarily for boys. But many were glad to watch so exciting a sport. Read More
Women in Sports: Suzanne Lenglen and Others
Suzanne Lenglen dominated the game from 1919 to 1926, and redefined what could be achieved by women. One historian said of her: "Her gifts were supreme. Her biting accuracy, coupled with divine balletic grace, dominated the game for so long without real challenge, that her immortality is unquestioned." Read More
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 Cathedrals of PleasureThe Rise of Hollywood
The rise of Hollywood signaled the arrival of America's urban-industrial age, a period when traditional values and established notions of family and community, of the social and political order, and of individual freedom and initiative were radically transformed. Read More
European Cinema
With the perfection of a moving picture camera in 1892, and the subsequent invention of the peep hole kinetoscope in 1893, the stage was set for the modern film industry. Previewed at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago during the summer of 1893, the kinetoscope could handle only one customer at a time. Read More
The Coming of Sound
Meanwhile a secret race to the screen was taking place. Probably the first to project, outside the Edison laboratories, was the late Major Woodville Latham, a hero of the Confederacy, from Virginia, who opened a flickering show at about 140 Broadway in May of 1895. Meanwhile in France, Louis and Auguste Lumière of Lyons, and Robert W. Paul of London achieved the screen... Read More
Russian Revolutionary Cinema
The ethnic nationality and socio-economic class ascribed to villains in Soviet films have in general coincided with those of real enemies under attack by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In addition, screen villains have usually been depicted as motivated by social goals in the realm of political power. Soviet film heroes, on the other hand, as a rule shared the ethnic nationality and socio-economic class of Communist Party members and their allies. Read More
The Success of Griffith and Aitken
The major figure in the rise of the American film, David Wark Griffith, did not want to make motion pictures. No contradiction proved more ironic for, in the entire history of the American screen, no other director achieved greater success, none won more esteem. This "enigmatic and somewhat tragic" figure, as Gilbert Seldes describes him, secretly cherished the ambition to become famous as an author and counted the moments... Read More
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  The Jazz AgePaul Whiteman Music
As the war overtook the United States, a significant economic struggle surfaced in musical entertainment. In the 1920s appropriation and assirnilation of black culture continued; the blandness of Whiteman's music seemed more comfortable. Read More
Prohibition and the Jazz Age
When threats from these quarters were added to a storm of disapproval aroused by the revelation of a number of scandals at Hollywood, the motion-picture industry in some trepidation summoned... Read More
Jazz: I Was Born with Music in Me
Jazz owes much to the district where George and Ira Gershwin and Irving Berlin started their careers. The wise-cracking brand of humor, and much language which has become part of popular speech... Read More
Jazz, Blues and Black Audience
Black blues singers emerged in the early twentieth century as popular and powerful celebrities. They were urban, secular singers who turned their rich experiences into social lessons for their audiences. Read More
White Popular Music
The opening of the Metropolitan, for all its importance in the world of music and drama, illustrated even more vividly than any formal dinner or fancy-dress ball... Read More
The New Woman and the 20's
The twenties likewise saw a form of art, music--that Britain for two centuries had chiefly regarded as an alien importation from the Continent--at length achieving a new status, as major native composers awakened the interest of an alert and educated public. Read More
Chanel Creations
At this period Chanel' s designs were for the leisured rich, the new international set who traveled Europe and the United States in a restless search... Read More
Fashion and Modernity
Chanel's collaboration with the Parisian artistic avant garde had been much more successful. As early as 1922... Read More
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