The dying city : postwar New York and the ideology of fear /
"As a sense of crisis rose in American cities during 1960s and 1970s, a period defined by suburban growth and deindustrialization, no city was viewed in its death throes more than New York. Feeding this narrative of the dying city was a wide range of representations in film, literature, and the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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Colección: | Studies in United States culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "As a sense of crisis rose in American cities during 1960s and 1970s, a period defined by suburban growth and deindustrialization, no city was viewed in its death throes more than New York. Feeding this narrative of the dying city was a wide range of representations in film, literature, and the popular press--representations that ironically would not have been produced if not for a city full of productive possibilities as well as challenges"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781469633077 1469633078 9781469633084 1469633086 |