1st Edition
Popular New Orleans The Crescent City in Periodicals, Theme Parks, and Opera, 1875–2015
By Florian Freitag
Copyright 2021
356 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
356 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
356 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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New Orleans is unique – which is precisely why there are many Crescent Cities all over the world: for almost 150 years, writers, artists, cultural brokers, and entrepreneurs have drawn on and simultaneously contributed to New Orleans’s fame and popularity by recreating the city in popular media from literature, photographs, and plays to movies, television shows, and theme parks. Addressing... Read more
Introduction
1. Scribner’s Illustrated New Orleans
2. Disney’s Immersive New Orleans
3. Wading Home’s Post-Katrina New Orleans
Conclusion
Biography
Florian Freitag is professor of American Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.
