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Over the last twenty years, scholarly and popular writers have analyzed and celebrated the worlds of leisure and entertainment i
Over the last twenty years, scholarly and popular writers have analyzed and celebrated the worlds of leisure and entertainment i
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2015-02-12
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Over the last twenty years, scholarly and popular writers have analyzed and celebrated the worlds of leisure and entertainment in the burgeoning cities of mid nineteenth-century America, greatly expanding the literature on these subjects. They have found an enthusiastic readership by offering glimpses of modes of leisure, performance, and charlatanism that passed from the scene in the early 20th century, indicating how lively they were and how comparatively impoverished our own entertainment choices have become in an era dominated by corporate electronic media.
Many scholars have been lured into a fascination with the extinct demimonde of dime museums, exhibition halls, saloons, and industrial exhibitions. During this period entertainment relied upon artful deception, comparable in importance to such contemporary forms of amusement as minstrelsy and melodrama. The cultural activities were forms of representational play in which spectators are caused to doubt their perceptions and judgment. Entertainments that tricked, or duped the paying public flourished in America’s cities in the 19th century. What distinguished these cohorts of entertainers, was not their ability to perpetrate fraud but that they understood the dynamics of a new urban audience that enjoyed distinguishing the genuine from the fake and the authentic from the concocted. The willing audience for artful deceptions maintained a double consciousness in which it simultaneously marveled at the qualities of the object or action displayed while enjoying the act of appraising the quality, audacity, and performance of the deception.
By offering semiotic analyses of a range of Victorian performances, we learn there was more to these exhibitions than appeared at first viewing. The tricks and lures of these entertainers deserve a more than marginal position in American cultural history.
According to the author, the entertainment he discusses was so popular because______.
选项
A、people didn’t know they were being tricked
B、people liked the performances and the chance to test their own judgment
C、people had a double consciousness of love and hate of it
D、people merely treated it an interesting game of deciding which was real and not
答案
B
解析
属信息归纳题。在第二段最后一句,作者介绍当时娱乐业的迷人风情,娱乐业受到欢迎,一方面是由于人们喜欢表演,同时也由于观众可以检验自己的判断力。
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考研英语一
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