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Fun Factories: Inventing American Amusement Parks

Pursell, Carroll

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During the nineteenth century American entrepreneurs, engineers and inventors combined to transform the European pleasure garden into an increasingly industrialized Fun Factory, filled with mechanical 'rides' which drew upon modern life to entertain the masses of working class thrill seekers delivered from urban centres by equally modern forms of transportation. Play was created by combining the capacity of amusement parks to produce fun with the (often young) homosocial crowd's desire, as...[Show more]

CollectionsANU Research Publications
Date published: 2013
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/61985
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