On the town : one hundred years of spectacle in Times Square / Marshall Berman.
By: Berman, Marshall.
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Verso, c2009Description: xxxvi, 264 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9781844673971 (pbk.).Subject(s): Arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History | Performing arts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History | Times Square (New York, N.Y.) -- History | Times Square (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life | Times Square (New York, N.Y.) -- In art | Times Square (New York, N.Y.) -- In literature | New York (N.Y.) -- History | New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life | New York (N.Y.) -- In art | New York (N.Y.) -- In literatureDDC classification: 974.7/1
Contents:
Author's Note: New Girl in Town Preface: One Hundred Years of Spectacle Home Fires Burning: Times Square's Signs Broadway, Love, and Theft: Al Jolson's Jazz Singer A Human Eye: Sailors in the Square Times Girl and Her Daughters The Street Splits and Twists The New Millennium: Living Inside the Deal Epilogue: Reuters and Me
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Originally published: New York : Random House, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author's Note: New Girl in Town xv -- Preface: One Hundred Years of Spectacle xix -- 1 Home Fires Burning: Times Square's Signs 3 -- 2 Broadway, Love, and Theft: Al Jolson's Jazz Singer 21 -- 3 A Human Eye: Sailors in the Square 43 -- 4 Times Girl and Her Daughters 103 -- 5 The Street Splits and Twists 151 -- 6 The New Millennium: Living Inside the Deal 193 -- Epilogue: Reuters and Me 219.
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