Come and be shocked : Baltimore beyond John Waters and The wire /
Rizzo, Mary,1975-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Cities as narratives -- Renewal and resistance -- The city of anger: Blockbusting an cultural representations of white innocence -- From blight to filth: John Waters in the age of urban renewal  -- "The most authentic microphone of black folks talking ever devised": Chicory and the poetry of human renewal  -- Hollywood East: William Donald Schaefer animates neoliberal Baltomore -- Good mo(u)rning, Baltimore -- Accidental tourists: alienated whiteness amid renaissance -- A people's history of West Baltimore: Roc, The Wire, and Baltimore on TV -- Welcome to Baltimore, Hon! : Race, gender, and urban branding at the end of the century.-- Epilogue.
Historiography.
Literature.
Motion pictures.