Beautiful Wasteland : The Rise of Detroit as America's Postindustrial Frontier /

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"The first book to analyze how contemporary ideas of Detroit circulate in popular culture in order to map the extension of the mythology of the frontier in American culture. Kinney analyzes a cross-section of twentieth and twenty first century cultural locations--an internet web forum, architec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kinney, Rebecca J., 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Urban renewal.
Social conditions.
Racism in popular culture.
Race relations.
Public opinion.
Popular culture.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Economic history.
City and town life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Renovation urbaine > Michigan > Detroit.
Vie urbaine > Michigan > Detroit.
Racisme dans la culture populaire > États-Unis.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Opinion publique > États-Unis.
Urban renewal > Michigan > Detroit.
City and town life > Michigan > Detroit.
Racism in popular culture > United States.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
Public opinion > United States.
United States.
Michigan > Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.) > Race relations.
Detroit (Mich.) > Economic conditions.
Detroit (Mich.) > Social conditions.
Detroit (Mich.) > Public opinion.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Building a beautiful wasteland
  • It's turned into a race thing : white innocence and the old neighborhood
  • Picturing ruin and possibility : the rise of the postindustrial frontier
  • Fanning the embers : branding Detroit as a phoenix rising
  • Flickers of the American dream : filming possibility in decline
  • Feeding Detroit's rise : provisions for urban pioneers
  • Conclusion: The strait : a tale of two cities.

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