New York, New York!
Subtitle: urban spaces, dreamscapes, contested territories
By: Sabine Sielke (ed.).
Series: Transcription -- volume 8
Publisher: Peter Lang Edition
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9783631665541; 9783653052114
Subjects: In art; Social life and customs; Intellectual life; Social change; Arts and society; American Arts; In literature; City and town life
Description: "Once a center of transatlantic cultural exchange and the avant-garde arts, New York City has transformed into a global metropolis. This book traces a shift that took shape as cultural practices and media underwent dramatic changes: it takes us from modernist visions of urban sublimity to postmodernist cityscapes; from Hart Crane's Brooklyn Bridge to the Flushing Meadows fairgrounds; from Mina Loy's poetics to Klaus Nomi's transgressive musical performances and Jem Cohen's multimedia experiments; from Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and the Magnum Photos portfolio to post-9/11 cinema and the photo blogs of the internet age. As we visit these urban spaces and dreamscapes, we enter territories that remain contested, dynamic locales in a city that keeps unfolding its transformative force"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: SABINE SIELKE - New York, New York! : introduction; title: HEINZ ICKSTADT - Envisioning Metropolis : New York as Seen, Imaged, and Imagined; title: CRISTANNE MILLER - "New York Israel" and the Poetry of Mina Loy; title: SARAH WASSERMAN - The Menace of the New : Mourning "The World of Tomorrow" at the 1939 New York World's Fair; title: ANTHONY KINIK - Walkers in the City : Literature, Film, and the Figure of the Flâneur in New York City; title: STEVEN HOELSCHER - Magnum's New York; title: SABINE SIELKE - New York, New Hollywood, Trauma : Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver Revisited; title: BETTINA SCHLUTER - Alien Voice Transformations : Klaus Nomi's Appearance on the Scene of New York's Subculture; title: NICO VOLKER - Fresh Wounds, Old Heroes : 9/11 in American Cinema; title: RAINER HILLRICHS - Remediating the Capital of Photography : New York Daily Photo Blogs; title: ULFRIED REICHARDT - New York : a Global City?; title: BJORN BOSSERHOFF - Beautiful Catastrophe : A New York City Bibliography.