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Live
from Atlantic City
The Miss America Pageant
Before, After, and In Spite of Television
A. R. Riverol
Popular Press
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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1992
LC: 92-081612 HQ
162 pp. 6 x 9
25 b/w photos
ISBN-10: 0-87972-557-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-557-0
Cloth $29.95 t
ISBN-10: 0-87972-558-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-87972-558-7
Paper $14.95 t
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