Lauren Rabinovitz - Electric Dreamland. Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early
twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles
into one unique, mod..(read more)
Publisher: Columbia University Press / ISBN 978-0231156615
Author: Lauren Rabinovitz
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Cinema, Culture Theory, History, Pop Culture, Sociology.
Caroline Martel - The Phantom of the Operator
This wry and delightful found-footage film reveals a little-known chapter in labor history: the story of female telephone operators’ central place in the deve..(read more)
Label: Artifact
Artist: Caroline Martel
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Collage, Documentary, History, Network Culture.
Various Artists - Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow: A Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games
From the sexy, savage' Cornish May Day rites of Alan Lomax's Oss Oss Wee Oss, to Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane's footage of ferociously fought trad..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / ISBN 5035673009208
Artist: Various Artists
Medium: 2DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Compilations, Early Cinema, Film History, Folk, History, Traditional.
Roberto Dillon - The Golden Age of Video Games
This book focuses on the history of video games, consoles, and home computers from the very beginning until the mid-nineties, which started a new era in digital..(read more)
Publisher: CRC Press / ISBN 9781439873236
Author: Roberto Dillon
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: History, Video Games.
Eddie Prevost - The First Concert
Percussionist Eddie Prévost co-founded in the 1960s the seminal improvising music ensemble AMM. In this book he presents a very personal philosophy of music in..(read more)
Publisher: Copula / Matchless / ISBN: 978-0-952492-5-3
Author: Eddie Prevost
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Culture Theory, History, Improvisation, UK.
