Live from Atlantic City : A History of the Miss America Pageant Before, After...-image

Live from Atlantic City : A History of the Miss America Pageant Before, After...

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Format: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780879725587 Item Width: 6 in Book Title: Live from Atlantic City : the Miss America Pageant Before, After, and in Spite of Television Illustrator: Yes Language: English Author: A. R. Riverol Number of Pages: 150 Pages Publication Year: 1992 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Item Height: 0.4 in Topic: Popular Culture width: 6 in height: 0.4 in Item Weight: 13 Oz Genre: Social Science Item Length: 9 in

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Live from Atlantic City : A History of the Miss America Pageant Before, After.... Live from Atlantic City : A History of the Miss America Pageant Before, After and in Spite of Television, Paperback by Riverol, A. R., ISBN 0879725583, ISBN-13 9780879725587, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A great American institution; the bane of feminist ideology; a cornucopia of corn—few are neutral about the Miss America Pageant. Live from Atlantic City traces the pageant’s history from its birth as pseudo-event in 1920 through its emergence as American popular culture icon. A. R. Riverol takes the reader to times and places where no television camera has focused. Drawing upon (and sometimes debating with) primary and secondary sources, the author paints a vivid picture of life in Atlantic City during pageant week—whether that week be in 1944 or 1984. More than just chronicling events, the author also presents two opposing perspectives on the pageant: the pageant as celebration and idealization of American womanhood and the pageant as sexist, exploitative anachronism.

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