摘要 | 第4-5页 |
Abstract | 第5-6页 |
Introduction | 第8-18页 |
Chapter One Theater as a Commercialized Geographical Space | 第18-31页 |
1.1 The location of theaters: prosperous Chicago and New York downtown | 第18-24页 |
1.2 The environment of theaters: luxury and magnificence in Chicago and New York | 第24-27页 |
1.3 Theaters in commercials: advertised Chicago and New York theaters | 第27-31页 |
Chapter Two Theater as a Space of Conspicuous Consumption | 第31-42页 |
2.1 Performers in the theater: materialists in consumer culture | 第31-35页 |
2.2 Audiences in the theater: conspicuous consumers | 第35-38页 |
2.3 Plays: advocator of mammonism | 第38-42页 |
Chapter Three Theater as a Space of Reproducing Social Relations | 第42-57页 |
3.1 The material rise of Carrie through the theater: American Dream in a consumer society | 第42-47页 |
3.2 Disappearance of Hurstwood from the theater: the anxiety of social status | 第47-52页 |
3.3 Minnie and Mrs. Vance as different consumers of theater: Protestantism VS Consumerism | 第52-57页 |
Conclusion | 第57-60页 |
Bibliography | 第60-64页 |
Acknowledgements | 第64页 |