Dying City
Subtitle: Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781469633053
Subjects: Fear; United states, intellectual life; United states, in literature; United states, in motion pictures; New york (n.y.), history
Description: "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"--