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Muscleman Charles Atlas featured in the Chicago Seminar on Sport
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Carolyn Bonner April 23, 2008 (773) 442-4240
c-bonner@neiu.edu
**Free and open to the public
Muscleman Charles Atlas featured in the Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture at the Newberry Library
WHAT: “Charles Atlas’ Italian Nose: Photography and Ethnicity On Trial at the Federal Trade Commission, 1936” will be presented by Dr. Dominique Padurano as part of the Chicago Seminar on Sport and Culture at the Newberry Library. Padurano examines Atlas’ appearance in front of the Federal Trade Commission as it pertains to issues of ethnicity, masculinity and consumption during the Great Depression.
Atlas, a fitness icon, was unprepared for the extent to which his credibility as a businessman, bodybuilder and American would be questioned when he appeared as a plaintiff before the Federal Trade Commission. Photographs of his body and his unauthorized name change from “Angelo Siciliano” were key elements in the case.
WHERE: Newberry Library, 80 W. Walton, Chicago
WHEN: Friday, May 16 at 3:30 p.m.
DETAILS: Padurano, a teacher at Horace Mann School, an independent day school in New York City, used the life and career of Charles Atlas to explore changes in American culture, masculinity, sexuality, and childhood during the first half of the 20th century for her dissertation “Making American Men: Charles Atlas and the Business of Bodies, 1982-1945.”
For more information, contact Steve Riess, professor, history, Northeastern Illinois University at (773) 442-5631 or s-riess@neiu.edu.
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