Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Anne Klingbeil Advertising and Promotions Coordinator University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1938 <http://www.upress.umn.edu>http://www.upress.umn.edu Explores the relationship between immigrant and national culture. THE IMMIGRANT SCENE: Ethnic Amusements in New York, 1880-1920 Sabine Haenni University of Minnesota Press | 336 pages | 2008 ISBN 978-0-8166-4981-5 | hardcover | $75.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-4982-2 | paperback | $25.00 Sabine Haenni reveals how theaters in New York created ethnic entertainment that shaped the culture of the United States in the early twentieth century. In analyzing how communities engaged with immigrant theaters and the nascent film culture in New York City, Haenni traces the ways in which performance and cinema provided virtual mobility and influenced national ideas of immigration, culture, and diversity in surprising ways. "A big, bold, and important book. The Immigrant Scene breaks new ground in urban cultural history and performance studies while building bridges between earlier works of history and a new generation of scholarship. " -Robert W. Snyder, author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York Sabine Haenni is associate professor in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance and in the American Studies Program at Cornell University. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/H/haenni_immigrant.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: <http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html>http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]