Product Description: As outdoor entertainment venues in American cities, pleasure gardens were public spaces where people could explore what it meant to be American. Stubbs examines how these venues helped form American identity and argues the gardens allowed for the exploration of what it meant to be American through performance, both on and off the stage...read more

Product Description: From its beginnings as a small studio in the 1920s, the Disney Company has become one of the most influential organizations in the world of entertainment. Why We Love Disney examines the influence of the Walt Disney Company and the reasons for Disney’s universal appeal...read more

Product Description: From the Brownies and the Yellow Kid to Spider-Man and SpongeBob SquarePants and everything in between, Geppi's Entertainment Museum offers an unprecedented look back at over two centuries of American pop culture through the characters and personalities we have grown to love...read more

Chronicles public amusement from when it was strictly for the wealthy, to the rise of vaudeville halls, phonograph parlors, and penny arcades--which brought the privilege to the working class--to the present, discussing barriers of class, ethnicity, and race (view table of contents)

Product Description: A colorful nonfiction account of America's early entertainment forms. This easy-to-read creative nonfiction book provides a light-hearted, yet accurate picture of many types of America's early entertainment. Join the one-of-a-kind characters who strolled across America's early entertainment landscape...read more

Product Description: This is a useful reference work for popular culture and performing arts collections. Choice