The city's end
Subtitle: two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of New York's destruction
By: Max Page
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780300164466
Subjects: In art; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Disasters in literature; History and criticism; Influence; In motion pictures; Disasters in art; Civilization; Disaster films; American fiction; In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Beauty and terror; title: "Horrors were their delight" : terrifying and thrilling wars at home and invasions from abroad; title: Utopian and dystopian fantasies of the "Stone Colossus" in the 1920s and 1930s; title: "Falls Rome, falls the world" : atomic fears of the 1940s and 1950s; title: Escape from New York : fictions of a city's decline and rebirth; title: The future of the city's end : New York and its fantasies after 9/11.