Metropolis
Subtitle: the American city in popular culture
By: Robert Zecker.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780275997120
Subjects: Cities and towns -- United States -- History; Urbanization -- United States -- History; Human geography -- United States -- History; City and town life -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: Next stop, the ghetto : tours of ethnic exotica in the popular press; title: "A problem that we, the public, must solve" : the gangster film; title: "Certain sociological realities there" : a city for the 1960s and beyond; title: "All of life was there before" : the urban nostalgic memoir; title: "We never locked our doors at night" : Newark on the 'net, minus the mob.