Susan G Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 681762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan G Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan G |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ben Botkin's FBI File
A reading of the recently declassified FBI file of prominent folklorist Benjamin A. Botkin suggests that his career was powerfully shaped by government surveillance and the midcentury Red Scares. Botkin's file reveals connections to cultural experiments that fed into his regional miscellany Folk-Say (1929-32) and his work with the Federal Writers' Project. Considering the tensions between radicalism and repression in the mid-twentieth century all…
Space Jam: Media Conglomerates Build the Entertainment City
Multinational media conglomerates are demonstrating a powerful interest in the problem of place. Time-Warner, Viacom, Seagram's Universal Studios and Sony are commissioning, designing and financing massive urban, suburban and tourist developments. This article explores the international `location-based entertainment' boom, looks at its reasons and rationales, and evaluates the impact of new ways of bringing media content into collective spaces as…
Landscapes of Imagination: Tourism in Southern California
Research Article| May 01 1999 Landscapes of Imagination: Tourism in Southern California Susan G. Davis Susan G. Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1999) 68 (2): 173–191. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641983 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century West
Journal Article Devils Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century West. By Hal K. Rothman. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998. xiv, 434 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-0910-5.) Get access Susan G. Davis Susan G. Davis University of California, San Diego, Lajolla, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1309–1311, https://doi.org/10.2…
Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience
Journal Article Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. By Susan G. Davis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 313 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-520-20031-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-520-20981-8.) Get access Marguerite S. Shaffer Marguerite S. Shaffer University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, …
Sociology
Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience
Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic
The theme park: Global industry and cultural form
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills
The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills by Judith A. Adams
Book Reviews The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills. By Judith A. Adams. Boston: Twayne (G. K. Hall), 1991. Pp. xvi + 225; illustrations, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index. $27.95 (cloth); $11.95 (paper). Judith Adams has written the most definitive condensed history of the amusement park industry in the United States to date. Drawing on a wide interdisciplinary and business literature, The American…
The Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma
Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Set Your Mood to Patriotic: History as Televised Special Event
Research Article| October 01 1988 “Set Your Mood to Patriotic”: History as Televised Special Event Susan G. Davis Susan G. Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1988) 1988 (42): 122–143. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1988-42-122 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Susan G. Davis; “Set Your Mood to Patriotic”: History as Televised Sp…
Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfoundland Example
Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Progress and Nostalgia: Silvesterklausen in Urnasch, Switzerland
Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Journal Article Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. By Susan G. Davis. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. xiii + 235 pp. $32.95.) Get access Adrienne Siegel Adrienne Siegel New York City Board of Education Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 745–746, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903016 Published: 01 D…
Strike Parades and the Politics of Representing Class in Antebellum Philadelphia
Making Night Hideous: Christmas Revelry and Public Order in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
FOR MOST OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY RESPECTABLE PHILADELPHIANS condemned Christmas as a disgrace. Philadelphia's Christmas was then an essentially public celebration, unfolding in taverns, alleys, and squares, and although it grew out of European festive patterns and rural customs, the festival took its shape and meaning from the city's working class and the changing conditions of urban life. Riot and revelry, disguise and debauch gave police and …
The theme park: Global industry and cultural form
Making Night Hideous: Christmas Revelry and Public Order in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
FOR MOST OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY RESPECTABLE PHILADELPHIANS condemned Christmas as a disgrace. Philadelphia's Christmas was then an essentially public celebration, unfolding in taverns, alleys, and squares, and although it grew out of European festive patterns and rural customs, the festival took its shape and meaning from the city's working class and the changing conditions of urban life. Riot and revelry, disguise and debauch gave police and …
Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Space Jam: Media Conglomerates Build the Entertainment City
Multinational media conglomerates are demonstrating a powerful interest in the problem of place. Time-Warner, Viacom, Seagram's Universal Studios and Sony are commissioning, designing and financing massive urban, suburban and tourist developments. This article explores the international `location-based entertainment' boom, looks at its reasons and rationales, and evaluates the impact of new ways of bringing media content into collective spaces as…
Ben Botkin's FBI File
A reading of the recently declassified FBI file of prominent folklorist Benjamin A. Botkin suggests that his career was powerfully shaped by government surveillance and the midcentury Red Scares. Botkin's file reveals connections to cultural experiments that fed into his regional miscellany Folk-Say (1929-32) and his work with the Federal Writers' Project. Considering the tensions between radicalism and repression in the mid-twentieth century all…
Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Landscapes of Imagination: Tourism in Southern California
Research Article| May 01 1999 Landscapes of Imagination: Tourism in Southern California Susan G. Davis Susan G. Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1999) 68 (2): 173–191. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641983 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfoundland Example
Making Night Hideous: Christmas Revelry and Public Order in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
FOR MOST OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY RESPECTABLE PHILADELPHIANS condemned Christmas as a disgrace. Philadelphia's Christmas was then an essentially public celebration, unfolding in taverns, alleys, and squares, and although it grew out of European festive patterns and rural customs, the festival took its shape and meaning from the city's working class and the changing conditions of urban life. Riot and revelry, disguise and debauch gave police and …
Strike Parades and the Politics of Representing Class in Antebellum Philadelphia
Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Journal Article Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia. By Susan G. Davis. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. xiii + 235 pp. $32.95.) Get access Adrienne Siegel Adrienne Siegel New York City Board of Education Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 3, December 1986, Pages 745–746, https://doi.org/10.2307/1903016 Published: 01 D…
Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Progress and Nostalgia: Silvesterklausen in Urnasch, Switzerland
Set Your Mood to Patriotic: History as Televised Special Event
Research Article| October 01 1988 “Set Your Mood to Patriotic”: History as Televised Special Event Susan G. Davis Susan G. Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1988) 1988 (42): 122–143. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1988-42-122 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Susan G. Davis; “Set Your Mood to Patriotic”: History as Televised Sp…
Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfoundland Example
Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
The Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma
The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills
The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills by Judith A. Adams
Book Reviews The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills. By Judith A. Adams. Boston: Twayne (G. K. Hall), 1991. Pp. xvi + 225; illustrations, tables, notes, appendixes, bibliography, index. $27.95 (cloth); $11.95 (paper). Judith Adams has written the most definitive condensed history of the amusement park industry in the United States to date. Drawing on a wide interdisciplinary and business literature, The American…
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
The theme park: Global industry and cultural form
Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience
Journal Article Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience. By Susan G. Davis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xii, 313 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-520-20031-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-520-20981-8.) Get access Marguerite S. Shaffer Marguerite S. Shaffer University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, …
Sociology
Spectacular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience
Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic
Space Jam: Media Conglomerates Build the Entertainment City
Multinational media conglomerates are demonstrating a powerful interest in the problem of place. Time-Warner, Viacom, Seagram's Universal Studios and Sony are commissioning, designing and financing massive urban, suburban and tourist developments. This article explores the international `location-based entertainment' boom, looks at its reasons and rationales, and evaluates the impact of new ways of bringing media content into collective spaces as…
Landscapes of Imagination: Tourism in Southern California
Research Article| May 01 1999 Landscapes of Imagination: Tourism in Southern California Susan G. Davis Susan G. Davis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1999) 68 (2): 173–191. https://doi.org/10.2307/3641983 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite …
Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century West
Journal Article Devils Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century West. By Hal K. Rothman. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1998. xiv, 434 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-0910-5.) Get access Susan G. Davis Susan G. Davis University of California, San Diego, Lajolla, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1309–1311, https://doi.org/10.2…
Ben Botkin's FBI File
A reading of the recently declassified FBI file of prominent folklorist Benjamin A. Botkin suggests that his career was powerfully shaped by government surveillance and the midcentury Red Scares. Botkin's file reveals connections to cultural experiments that fed into his regional miscellany Folk-Say (1929-32) and his work with the Federal Writers' Project. Considering the tensions between radicalism and repression in the mid-twentieth century all…
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