Flying down to Rio : Hollywood, tourists, and Yankee Clippers / by Rosalie Schwartz.
Flying down to Rio : Hollywood, tourists, and Yankee Clippers / by Rosalie Schwartz.
Flying down to Rio : Hollywood, tourists, and Yankee Clippers / by Rosalie Schwartz.
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College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2004.
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N303.4832/ 8
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English
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Physical content
386 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : an entertainment century -- Ch. 1. Reflections on wonderlands -- Ch. 2. Inventors and entertainers : aviation -- Ch. 3. Inventors and entertainers : movies -- Ch. 4. Surmountable contradictions -- Ch. 5. Lines in the sky -- Ch. 6. PAA and RKO : the Rio connection -- Ch. 7. Musical fan...
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Publisher
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2004.
Edition
1st ed.
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Texas
Date Published
c2004.
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Summary
"In this book, author Rosalie Schwartz uses the 1933 RKO-Radio Pictures production Flying Down to Rio as a point of departure from which to examine the interplay of technology and popular culture that shaped a distinctive twentieth-century sensibility. The musical comedy connected airplanes, movies, and tourism, ending spectacularly with chorus gir...
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Flying down to Rio : Hollywood, tourists, and Yankee Clippers / by Rosalie Schwartz.
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Centennial of flight series ; no. 10.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-373) and index.
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c2004.
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N303.4832/ 8
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ISBN
1585444219 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781585443826 (alk. paper)
1585443824 (alk. paper)
9781585444212 (pbk. : alk. paper)
DDC
303.4832
MMS ID
991019313309702626
