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Flying down to Rio : Hollywood, tourists, and Yankee Clippers / by Rosalie Schwartz

Author
Schwartz, Rosalie, 1936-
Published
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (386 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
An entertainment century -- Reflections on wonderlands -- Inventors and entertainers: aviation -- Inventors and entertainers: movies -- Surmountable contradictions -- Lines in the sky -- PAA and RKO: the Rio connection -- Musical fantasies, political realities -- Movies, airplanes, and touristic urges.
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 girls dancing on the wings of airplanes high above Rio de Janeiro, Brazil."
"Flying Down to Rio: Hollywood, Tourists, and Yankee Clippers shows the close connection between commerce, aviation, film, and empire. By the end of the twentieth century, reality caught up with and surpassed imagination. Aviation, movies, and mass tourism had become powerful global industries, contributing to an internationally connected, entertainment-oriented culture. What was once unthinkable had now become expected."--Jacket
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ISBN
9781603446341 (electronic bk.)
1603446346 (electronic bk.)
1299052657
9781299052659
1585443824
9781585443826
1585444219
9781585444212
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-373) and index.
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