Title: Dying City
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"--
Subjects: Fear, United states, intellectual life, United states, in literature, United states, in motion pictures, New york (n.y.), history, Intellectual life, In literature, In motion pictures, History, Social aspects, Literature, Motion pictures