TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tochterman,Brian
TI  - The dying city: postwar New York and the ideology of fear 
T2  - Studies in United States culture
SN  - 9781469633077
AV  - F128 .D956 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Fear
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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