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Beautiful Terrible Ruins : Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline /

Detroit is the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images of ruin, ranging from photography, advertising, and television, to documentaries, video games, and zombie and disaster films. The autho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Apel, Dora, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Detroit is the epicenter of an explosive growth in images of urban decay. In Beautiful Terrible Ruins, art historian Dora Apel explores a wide array of these images of ruin, ranging from photography, advertising, and television, to documentaries, video games, and zombie and disaster films. The author shows how, through the aesthetic distancing of representation, the beauty and fascination of these images helps us to cope with the overarching anxieties of our time.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages).
ISBN:9780813574097