The city since 9/11 literature, film, television / edited by Keith Wilhite.
| Other author | Wilhite, Keith. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Madison [New Jersey] ; Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016] |
| Description | ix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Keith Wilhite -- Remapping the city: gentrification, the usable past, and the postmodern metropolis. Navigating the post-9/11 metropolis: reclaiming and remapping urban space in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely loud & incredibly close and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland / Karolina Golimowska -- Million dollar views: cognitive gentrification in post-9/11 New York City / Jason Buchanan -- New York unearthed: 9/11, let the great world spin, and the archaeology of grief / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman -- Rhetoric and aesthetics of the ephemeral in Ronald Sukenick's Last fall / Salwa Karoui-Elounelli -- The reality of fiction in a virtually postmodern metropolis: Jonathan Lethem's Chronic city and Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding edge / Justin St. Clair -- The metropolis unmoored: uncanny worlds and global cities. Zombies, the uncanny, and the city: Colson Whitehead's Zone one / Tim Gauthier -- The spectral city: Paul Auster's Man in the dark and other imagined cities / Eduardo Barros-Grela -- Global homesickness in William Gibson's Blue ant trilogy / Sean Scanlan -- Before after: Amitav Ghosh's pre-1856 cosmopolis as post-9/11 lost object / Hilary Thompson -- Shifting the city's center within Katherine Boo's Behind the beautiful forevers / Ghazala Hashmi -- Framing the city: abjection, realism, and the restorative power of cinema. Alfonso Cuarón's Children of men: piling up traumatic spectacles of terror in a Post-9/11 world / Jenny Kijowski -- Abject spaces in The bridge and The killing: the post-9/11 city of Nordic noir / Fran Pheasant-Kelly -- Gritty urban realism as ideology: The wire and the televisual representation of the "inner city" / Steve Macek -- Early cinema and the post-9/11 city: Hugo and Extremely loud & incredibly close / Michael Devine -- Conclusion: ruins and memorials / Catalina Florina Florescu. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015047547 |
| ISBN | 9781611477184 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |