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

Author/creator Tochterman, Brian author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Descriptionxiii, 277 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Studies in United States culture
Studies in United States culture. ^A1288018
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 -- The other New York: 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.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2016047325
ISBN9781469633053 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN1469633051 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN9781469633060 paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBN146963306X paperback ; alkaline paper
ISBNelectronic book

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