Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-307) and index.
Contents:
Mobile metropolis : urban circulation, modern media, moving publics -- A community of consumers : legitimate hybridity, German American theater, and the American public -- The drama of performance : early Italian and Yiddish theatrical cultures -- Filming Chinatown : fake visions, bodily transformations, narrative crises -- Alien intimacies, urban crowds : screening immigrants on Broadway -- Coda : from New York to California.
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