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

By:

Tochterman, Brian [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781469633077

Subject(s):

Fear -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

F128 .D956 2017

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Contents:

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.

Subject: "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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	F128.52 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn987252074

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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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