Woody Register
Biographic Data
| ID | 328500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Woody Register |
| GIVEN NAMES | Woody |
| FAMILY NAME | Register |
| SIGNATURE | REGISTER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sewanee: The University of the South |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Some truths about the rumors, gossip, hearsay, and innuendo surrounding the Freeport murder mystery of 1914
This article examines how metropolitan newspapers reported the scandalous 1914 murder of a Long Island housewife who was shot by an unknown assailant as she was being examined by her physician. Headlines focused on the ‘insanely jealous’ doctor's wife upon the discovery of an eavesdropping device she had installed in her husband's examining room, but other information, always reported as rumor or camouflaged in innuendo, indicated an alternative …
Electric Dreamland
Historians of the early twentieth-century culture industry have tended to categorize amusement parks and moving pictures in separate books or book chapters and to assign priority to New York City enterprises and audiences. In Electric Dreamland Lauren Rabinovitz advances a welcome alternative perspective. She recalls that early “movie audiences were also simultaneously parkgoers” and not just at Coney Island but also in large and small cities fro…
Everyday Peter Pans
From 1900 to 1930, many middle-class men working in new urban consumer enterprises in the United States believed that they had never grown up, valued the work because it was fun, and attributed their achievements to their eternal boyishness. In doing so, they contributed to the creation of a commercial culture of Peter Pan, which reflected and encouraged new gender identities that validated and demarcated social roles and opportunities for men in…
Electric Dreamland
Historians of the early twentieth-century culture industry have tended to categorize amusement parks and moving pictures in separate books or book chapters and to assign priority to New York City enterprises and audiences. In Electric Dreamland Lauren Rabinovitz advances a welcome alternative perspective. She recalls that early “movie audiences were also simultaneously parkgoers” and not just at Coney Island but also in large and small cities fro…
Everyday Peter Pans
From 1900 to 1930, many middle-class men working in new urban consumer enterprises in the United States believed that they had never grown up, valued the work because it was fun, and attributed their achievements to their eternal boyishness. In doing so, they contributed to the creation of a commercial culture of Peter Pan, which reflected and encouraged new gender identities that validated and demarcated social roles and opportunities for men in…
Electric Dreamland
Historians of the early twentieth-century culture industry have tended to categorize amusement parks and moving pictures in separate books or book chapters and to assign priority to New York City enterprises and audiences. In Electric Dreamland Lauren Rabinovitz advances a welcome alternative perspective. She recalls that early “movie audiences were also simultaneously parkgoers” and not just at Coney Island but also in large and small cities fro…
Some truths about the rumors, gossip, hearsay, and innuendo surrounding the Freeport murder mystery of 1914
This article examines how metropolitan newspapers reported the scandalous 1914 murder of a Long Island housewife who was shot by an unknown assailant as she was being examined by her physician. Headlines focused on the ‘insanely jealous’ doctor's wife upon the discovery of an eavesdropping device she had installed in her husband's examining room, but other information, always reported as rumor or camouflaged in innuendo, indicated an alternative …
Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works)