Poetic resurrection : the Bronx in American popular culture /

While in the late 1970s many Americans dismissed the cultural potential of the Bronx by claiming that "The Bronx is burning," this study challenges that assumption. This first-ever study on The Bronx in American popular culture shows how a wide variety of cultural representations engaged i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nitzsche, Sina A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript Verlag, [2020]
Colección:Cultural studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 53.
Temas:
1900-1999
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
Literature
Motion pictures
Songs
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > In popular culture > History > 20th century.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > In literature > History > 20th century.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > In motion pictures > History > 20th century.
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) > Songs and music > History > 20th century.
New York (State) > New York > Bronx
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction. Welcome to The Bronx
  • Chapter 1. Approaching the Boogie Down:The Bronx, Popular Culture, and the Poetic Resurrection
  • 1.1 Mind the Gap: Historicizing The Bronx
  • 1.2 Exploring Urban Spaces: Popular, Media, and Convergence Cultures
  • 1.3 Spectacular Ruins: Mapping the Era of Decline in The Bronx
  • 1.4 Beyond Ruins: The Poetic Resurrection
  • Chapter 2. The Bronx is Not Lost:Remembering the Success Story in Literature
  • 2.1 "I was the queen of my block": Polish Immigration, Tremont Challenges, and Jewish American Female Empowerment in Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood (1982)
  • 2.2 "I hoped we would not let happen to the entire world what we had let happen to The Bronx": Highbridge Masculinity, Jewish Humor, and the Global Dimensions of Devastation in Growing Up Bronx (1984)
  • 2.3 "I was trading in my dreams of the fifties for a new beginning": Kingsbridge Memories, Jewish American Masculinity, and Post-Industrial Well-Being in The Old Neighborhood (1980)
  • 2.4 Conclusion
  • Chapter 3. Zooming in on the Devastation:The Bronx as an Urban Frontier in Film
  • 3.1 "It's a fort in hostile territory, you understand?": Colonial Encounters, Irish American Heroism, and Precinct Skepticism in Fort Apache: The Bronx (1981)
  • 3.2 "I hate kids, especially yours": Italian American Domesticity, Frontier Femininity, and Gangster Journeys in Gloria (1980)
  • 3.3 "South Bronx and Wall Street: They are both dead": Gothic Ruins, Supernatural Creatures, and the Postcolonial Politics of Decline in Wolfen (1981)
  • 3.4 Conclusion
  • Chapter 4. Creating a New Popular Culture:Re-Imagining the American Dream in Hip-Hop
  • 4.1 "We are all graffiti artists": Visual Creativity, Puerto Rican Romance, and a Local Success Story in Wild Style (1982)
  • 4.2 "It's like a jungle sometimes": Afrodiasporic Masculinity, Youth Resilience, and Genre Innovation in "The Message" (1982)
  • 4.3 "A self-starting culture": Grassroots Agency, Media Diversity, and Coffee Table Gentrification in Born in The Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip-Hop (2007)
  • 4.4 Conclusion
  • Conclusions. Global Dimensions of the Poetic Resurrection

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