The dying city : postwar New York and the ideology of fear /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tochterman, Brian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Series:Studies in United States culture.
Subjects:
Since 1898
Fear > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York.
Peur > Aspect social > New York (État) > New York.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Fear > Social aspects
Intellectual life
Literature
Motion pictures
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > In literature.
New York (N.Y.) > In motion pictures.
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1951-
New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951.
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > 1951-
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > 1898-1951.
New York (State) > New York
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Highbrow vs. hard-boiled: literary visions of New York, 1947-1952. E.B. White's cosmopolis ; Mickey Spillane's necropolis
  • Cancer and death: New York narratives in planning theory, 1953-1961. The case for municipal surgery ; On planning necropolis
  • Intellectuals interrogate necropolis, 1961-1967. Farewell to the universal city ; Untangling the pathologies of ungovernability
  • Detour to Fun City: cultural responses to the death of New York, 1967-1985. Fear City on film ; The lure of decay.

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