RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Rabinovitz, Lauren
T1 Temptations of Pleasure: Nickelodeons, Amusement Parks, and the Sights of Female Sexuality
JF Iluminace
YR 2011
VO 23
IS 2
SP 53
OP 67
UL https://iluminace.cz/en/artkey/ilu-201102-0004.php
AB The translation of Lauren Rabinovitz's text challenges the approach to media history presented in the previous article. Here, an archaeological approach is intertwined with the practices of the new film history, and together they reveal the image of women that is born with modernity and how it transcends into the representational practice of technical images. The text traces the instituting of budget cinemas and theme parks as cultural spaces, how these spaces aroused spectators' desires, how they helped to present the female body as spectacle, and what meaning they assigned to women. The study focuses on the period 1900-1915 in the United States.