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A Night at the Gardens: Class, Gender, and Respectability in 1930s Toronto - Hardcover

Field, Russell

 
9781487547028: A Night at the Gardens: Class, Gender, and Respectability in 1930s Toronto
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1487547021 ISBN 13: 9781487547028
Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

When Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens opened in 1931, manager Conn Smythe envisioned an arena that would project an aura of middle-class respectability. In A Night at the Gardens, Russell Field shares how this new arena anticipated spectators by examining varying spectator behaviours, who the spectators were, and what the experience of spectating was like.

Drawing on archival records, the book explores the neighbourhood in which Maple Leaf Gardens was situated, the design of the arena’s interior spaces, and the ways in which the venue was operated in order to appeal to respectable spectators at a particular intersection of class and gender. Oral history interviews with former spectators at Maple Leaf Gardens detail the experience of watching the spectacle that unfolded on the ice during each hockey game.

A Night at the Gardens tells the fascinating story of how one prominent public building became such an important part of Toronto society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Russell Field is an associate professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba.

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Verlag
University of Toronto Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1487547021
ISBN 13 
9781487547028
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
248
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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4831 GR
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