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Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland Exhibition Reference Materials Materials accompanying the exhibition are marked with an asterisk (*). Books for Adults Adams, Judith A. The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991. Adams, Rachael. Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Baker, Kevin. Dreamland. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. Berman, John S. Coney Island. New York: Barnes and Noble Publishing Inc., 2003. Bogdan, Robert. Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Braden, Donna R. Leisure and Entertainment in America. Dearborn: Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, 1988.* Carlin, John. Coney Island of the Mind: Images of Coney Island in Art and Popular Culture, 1890–1960. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. The Programming Guide for Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland © 2017 NEH On the Road, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. 1 Cohen, Marilyn. Reginald Marsh’s New York: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, and Photographs. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1983. Cross, Gary S. and John K. Walton. The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University, 2005.* Cudahy, Brian J. How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. Daly, Michael. Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked Tailed Elephant, P.T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2013. Dennett, Andrea Stulman. Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America. New York: New York University Press, 1997. Denson, Charles. Coney Island: Lost and Found. New York: Ten Speed Press, 2002.* ___________. Images of America: Coney Island and Astroland. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2011.* ___________. Wild Ride!: A Coney Island Roller Coaster Family. Berkeley, CA: Dreamland Press, 2007. Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. New York: New Directions, 1958.* The Programming Guide for Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland © 2017 NEH On the Road, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. 2 Fried, Frederick. A Pictorial History of the Carousel. Vestal: Vestal Press, 1997. Frank, Robin and Charles Denson. Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861–2008. Hartford: Yale University Press, 2015.* Haenni, Sabine. The Immigrant Scene: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1820–1920. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Hagley Museum and Library. Centuries of Progress: American World’s Fairs 1853–1982. Wilmington: Hagley Museum and Library, 2006.* Hammer, Carl and Gideon Bosker. Freak Show: Sideshow Banner Art. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996. Hartzman, Marc. America Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History’s Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers. New York: Penguin, 2005.* Haskell, Barbara and Joseph Stella. Joseph Stella. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994. Henry, O. “Brick Dust Row,” in The Trimmed Lamp, and Other Stories of the Four Million. Garden City: Doubleday, 1907. http://americanliterature.com/author/o-henry/short- story/brickdust-row Hoffman, Laura. Coney Island: Postcard History. Mount Pleasant: Arcadia Publishing, 2014.* The Programming Guide for Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland © 2017 NEH On the Road, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. 3 Ierardi, Eric J. Gravesend: The Home of Coney Island. Mount Pleasant: Arcadia Publishing, 2001. ___________. Gravesend Brooklyn: Coney Island and Sheepshead Bay. Mount Pleasnt: Arcardia Publishing, 1996. Immerso, Michael. Coney Island: The People’s Playground. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2002.* Kasson, John F. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. New York: Hiss & Wang, 1978. Kyrianzi, Gary. The Great American Amusement Parks: A Pictorial History. 1978. Lilliefors, James. America’s Boardwalks: From Coney Island to California. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. Mangels, William F. The Outdoor Amusement Industry: From Earliest Times to the Present. New York: Vantage Press, 1952. Manns, William and Peggy Shank. Painted Ponies: American Carousel Art. Santa Fe: Zon International Publishing, 1986.* Marsh, Reginald. Reginald Marsh: Coney Island. Fort Wayne: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 1991. Miller, Henry. Black Spring. New York: Grove Press, 1994. Musser, Charles. Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. The Programming Guide for Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland © 2017 NEH On the Road, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. 4 Onorato, Michael Paul. Another Time, Another World: Coney Island Memories. Fullerton: Onorato and California State University, Oral History Program, 1988. Onorato, Michael Paul and Daniel Pisark. Steeplechase Park and the Decline of Coney Island: An Oral History. Bellingham: Pacific Rim Books, 2003. Parascandola, Louis J. and John Parascandola (editors). A Coney Island Reader: Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.* Pilat, Oliver and Jo Ranson. Sodom by the Sea: An Affectionate History of Coney Island. Garden City, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941. Rabinovitz, Lauren. Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. Register, Woody. The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.* Samuelson, Dale and Wendy Yegoiants. American Amusement Park. Saint Paul: MBI, 2001.* Scheiber, Barbara. We’ll Go to Coney Island: A Novel in Stories. Philadephia: Sowilo Press, 2014. Snow, Richard F. Coney Island: A Postcard Journey to the City of Fire. New York: Brightwaters Press, 1984. The Programming Guide for Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland © 2017 NEH On the Road, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. 5 Stein, Harvey. Coney Island: 40 Years. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 2011.* Stencell, A. W. Seeing is Believing: America’s Sideshows. Toronto: ECW Press, 2012. Sterngass, Jon. First Resorts: Pursuing Pleasure at Saratoga Springs, Newport, and Coney Island. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Weedon, Geoff. Fairground Art: The Art Forms of Travelling Fairs, Carousels, and Carnival Midways. New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Zimiles, Murray, Stacy Hollander, and Vivian Mann. Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2007. Books for Younger Readers Altebrando, Tara. Dreamland Social Club. New York: Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2011. Greenberg, Melanie Hope. Mermaids on Parade. New York: G. P. Putnams Sons Books for Young Readers, 2008. Linden, Joanne. Ben & Zip: Two Short Friends. Chicago: Flashlight Press, 2014. Nuño, Fran and Enrique Quevedo. Fairground Lights. Madrid: Cuento de Luz, 2015. The Programming Guide for Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland © 2017 NEH On the Road, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. 6 McLoughlin Brothers. Johnny Headstrong’s Trip to Coney Island. Carlisle: Applewood Books, 2011.* Milford, Kate. The Broken Lands. Boston: Clarion Books, 2012. Rose, Deborah Lee. The Rose Horse. San Diego: Harcourt Children’s Books, 1995. Smith Hyde, Heidi. Feivel’s Flying Horses. Minneapolis: Kar-Ben Publishers, 2010.* Sullivan, Maureen. Custard and Mustard: Carlos in Coney Island. Riverhead: Mojo Inkworks, 2009.* Tullet, Hervé. The Game of Mirrors. London: Phaidon Press, 2014. DVDS American Experience: Coney Island. DVD. 1991; Directed by Ric Burns. Alexandria: PBS, 2006.* Annie Hall. Directed by Woody Allen. DVD. New York: Rollins Joffe Productions, 1977. Boardwalk. Directed by Stephen Verona. DVD. New York: Stratford, 1979. Coney Island. Directed by Walter Lang. DVD. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 1943. Coney Island: Dreams for Sale. DVD. Directed by Alessandra Giordano. Los Angeles: Cinedigm Studio, 2013. The Programming Guide for Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland © 2017 NEH On the Road, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. 7 Coney Island: The Early Days Film Collection. DVD. Anderson: The Historical Archive, 2006.* Coney Island Honeymoon. Directed by Arnold Albert. Burbank: Warner Brothers, 1945. Coney Island U.S.A. Directed by Valentine Shevy. 1952. The Devil and Miss Jones. Directed by Sam Wood. DVD. Chicago: Olive Films, 1941.* Enemies, A Love Story. DVD. 1989; Burbank: Warner Home Video, 2002. Famous Nathan. Directed by Lloyd Handwerker. DVD. New York: Film Movement, 2015. Freaks. Directed by Tod Browning. DVD. 1932; Burbank: Warner Home Video, 2005.* The Gilded Lily. Directed by Wesley Ruggles. DVD. 1935; New York: Universal Studios, 2011.* He Got Game. Directed by Spike Lee. DVD. Burbank: Touchstone Entertainment, 1998.* Happy Ride, Coney Island. Short film. Directed by Gary Beeber, 2005. Little Fugitive. Directed by Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin, and Ray Ashley. DVD; 1953. New York: Kino Lorber Films, 2008. The Programming Guide for Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland © 2017 NEH On the Road, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. 8 Requiem for a Dream. Directed by Darren Aronfsky. DVD. 2000; Santa Monica: Lionsgate Films (Artisan Home Entertainment), 2001.* Silent Classics: Amusement Park Antics. Directed by Edwin S. Porter and Hal Roach. DVD. Eden Prairie: Alpha Video, 2014.* Speedy. Directed by Ted Wilde. DVD. 1928; Criterion Collection, 2015.* The Warriors. Directed by Walter Hill. DVD, 1979; Burbank: Warner Brothers, 2005. Weegee’s New York. Directed by Weegee (Arthur Fellig). 1948. Went to Coney Island on a Mission from God—Be Back by Five. Directed by Richard Schenkman. DVD. 1998; Troy: Anchor Bay, 2008. Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride. Directed by Amy Nicholson. New York: Cinema Guild, 2012. The Programming Guide for Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland © 2017 NEH On the Road, a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. 9 .
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