Urban Nightmares : The Media, The Right, And The Moral Panic Over The City /

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In Urban Nightmares, Steve Macek documents the scope of alarmist representations of the city, examines the ideologies that informed them, and exposes the interests they ultimately served. Macek explains how Hollywood filmmakers, advertisers, and journalists validated the right-wing discourse on the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macek, Steve, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Öffentliche Meinung
Angst
Innenstadt
Massenmedien
Urban policy.
Inner cities.
Fear of crime.
Cities and towns > Public opinion.
Cities and towns in mass media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Villes dans les medias.
Peur du crime > États-Unis.
Politique urbaine > États-Unis.
Villes dans les medias > États-Unis.
Centres villes > États-Unis.
Villes > États-Unis > Opinion publique.
Fear of crime > United States.
Urban policy > United States.
Inner cities > United States.
Cities and towns > United States > Public opinion.
USA.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A landscape of fear
  • The origins of the crisis : race, class, and the inner city
  • Inventing the savage urban other
  • Catastrophe is now : the discourse on the underclass
  • Crack alleys and killing zones : news coverage of the postindustrial city
  • The cinema of suburban paranoia
  • Wouldn't you rather be at home? : marketing middle-class agoraphobia
  • Conclusion: Awakening from urban nightmares.

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