Daniel Czitrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 680579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Czitrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Czitrom |
| SIGNATURE | CZITROM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Electoral Capitalism
Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer has made an important original contribution to our understanding of Gilded Age America. As a political scientist he has dug deeply into the emergence of what he calls electoral capitalism, “a category of entrepreneurship in which the capture of public office and the accumulation of private wealth are mutually reinforcing endeavors” (p. 6). Broxmeyer's focus on the nation's largest and most politically contested state, paralle…
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Gangs of New York
The director dreamed of making the movie for decades; the studio spent over $100 million on a project completed two years behind schedule; the hype machine cranked out tales of endless script rewrites and bitter power struggles among the film makers. Historians kept their fingers crossed, hoping that one of the world's premier movie auteurs would combine his artistic imagination, street savvy, and passion for history to produce that rarest of cre…
The Politics of Performance
THE MOVIES WERE BORN IN THE CITY. WHILE HISTORIANS OF EARLY film have begun to pay more attention to special issues such as technology, patent wars, industrial practice, and the movies' aesthetic debt to earlier forms of cultural expression, there has been little analysis of the specifically urban world that made motion pictures the most popular form of commercial entertainment by World War I. The political, legal, and economic wrangles surroundi…
Underworlds and Underdogs
I believe in liberality. I am a thorough New Yorker and have no narrow prejudices. I never ask a hungry man about his past; I feed him, not because he is good, but because he needs food. Help your neighbor but keep your nose out of his affairs.... I never sued a man in my life and no man was ever arrested on my complaint. I am square with my friends, and all I ask is a square deal in return. But even if I don't get that, I am still with my friend…
City Games
Journal Article City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports. By Steven A. Riess. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xiv + 332 pp. $29.95.) Get access Daniel Czitrom Daniel Czitrom Mount Holyoke College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1045–1046, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079079 Published: 01 Decembe…
Communication Studies as American Studies
The Culture of Consumption
Journal Article The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880–1980. Ed. by Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears. (New York: Pantheon, 1983. xvii + 236 pp. Notes. Cloth, $20.00; paper, $9.95.) Get access Daniel J. Czitrom Daniel J. Czitrom Mount Holyoke College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 4, March 1985, Pages 888–889, https://…
Media and the American Mind
The Redemption of Leisure
Media and the American Mind
Journal Article Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan. By Daniel J. Czitrom. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. xiv + 254 pp. Illustration, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access Peter C. Rollins Peter C. Rollins Oklahoma State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Page 1014, https://doi…
The Great Television Race
Journal Article The Great Television Race: A History of the American Television Industry, 1925–1941. By Joseph H. Udelson. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1982. xiii + 197 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $18.95.) Get access Daniel J. Czitrom Daniel J. Czitrom Mount Holyoke College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, …
Underworlds and Underdogs
I believe in liberality. I am a thorough New Yorker and have no narrow prejudices. I never ask a hungry man about his past; I feed him, not because he is good, but because he needs food. Help your neighbor but keep your nose out of his affairs.... I never sued a man in my life and no man was ever arrested on my complaint. I am square with my friends, and all I ask is a square deal in return. But even if I don't get that, I am still with my friend…
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The Great Television Race
Journal Article The Great Television Race: A History of the American Television Industry, 1925–1941. By Joseph H. Udelson. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1982. xiii + 197 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $18.95.) Get access Daniel J. Czitrom Daniel J. Czitrom Mount Holyoke College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, …
The Politics of Performance
THE MOVIES WERE BORN IN THE CITY. WHILE HISTORIANS OF EARLY film have begun to pay more attention to special issues such as technology, patent wars, industrial practice, and the movies' aesthetic debt to earlier forms of cultural expression, there has been little analysis of the specifically urban world that made motion pictures the most popular form of commercial entertainment by World War I. The political, legal, and economic wrangles surroundi…
The Great Television Race
Journal Article The Great Television Race: A History of the American Television Industry, 1925–1941. By Joseph H. Udelson. (University: University of Alabama Press, 1982. xiii + 197 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $18.95.) Get access Daniel J. Czitrom Daniel J. Czitrom Mount Holyoke College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 3, …
Media and the American Mind
Journal Article Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan. By Daniel J. Czitrom. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982. xiv + 254 pp. Illustration, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access Peter C. Rollins Peter C. Rollins Oklahoma State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Page 1014, https://doi…
Media and the American Mind
The Redemption of Leisure
The Culture of Consumption
Journal Article The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880–1980. Ed. by Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears. (New York: Pantheon, 1983. xvii + 236 pp. Notes. Cloth, $20.00; paper, $9.95.) Get access Daniel J. Czitrom Daniel J. Czitrom Mount Holyoke College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 71, Issue 4, March 1985, Pages 888–889, https://…
City Games
Journal Article City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports. By Steven A. Riess. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989. xiv + 332 pp. $29.95.) Get access Daniel Czitrom Daniel Czitrom Mount Holyoke College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 1045–1046, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079079 Published: 01 Decembe…
Communication Studies as American Studies
Underworlds and Underdogs
I believe in liberality. I am a thorough New Yorker and have no narrow prejudices. I never ask a hungry man about his past; I feed him, not because he is good, but because he needs food. Help your neighbor but keep your nose out of his affairs.... I never sued a man in my life and no man was ever arrested on my complaint. I am square with my friends, and all I ask is a square deal in return. But even if I don't get that, I am still with my friend…
The Politics of Performance
THE MOVIES WERE BORN IN THE CITY. WHILE HISTORIANS OF EARLY film have begun to pay more attention to special issues such as technology, patent wars, industrial practice, and the movies' aesthetic debt to earlier forms of cultural expression, there has been little analysis of the specifically urban world that made motion pictures the most popular form of commercial entertainment by World War I. The political, legal, and economic wrangles surroundi…
Gangs of New York
The director dreamed of making the movie for decades; the studio spent over $100 million on a project completed two years behind schedule; the hype machine cranked out tales of endless script rewrites and bitter power struggles among the film makers. Historians kept their fingers crossed, hoping that one of the world's premier movie auteurs would combine his artistic imagination, street savvy, and passion for history to produce that rarest of cre…
Interchange
Electoral Capitalism
Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer has made an important original contribution to our understanding of Gilded Age America. As a political scientist he has dug deeply into the emergence of what he calls electoral capitalism, “a category of entrepreneurship in which the capture of public office and the accumulation of private wealth are mutually reinforcing endeavors” (p. 6). Broxmeyer's focus on the nation's largest and most politically contested state, paralle…
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