By Lynn Kathleen Sally
ISBN-10: 0415977592
ISBN-13: 9780415977593
ISBN-10: 1138878413
ISBN-13: 9781138878419
In Fighting the Flames, Sally contextualizes, historicizes, and theorizes the dazzling functionality of fireside at turn-of-the-twentieth century Coney Island. The functionality of fireplace incorporated staged shows, similar to fireplace and Flames and battling the Flames, and the genuine fires that plagued its background. whereas Coney Island positioned fireplace middle level in its fire-based catastrophe spectacles, hearth has consistently burned its personal bridge, destroying the manufacturer who desires to make fireplace the celebrity of his exhibit. the genuine conflagrations at Coney Island insert accurately what was once lacking from those staged performances: ephemerality, unpredictability, and newness of the current that function metaphors for not just fireplace yet for the improvement of the city and the appearance of modernity.
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