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1 online resource |
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Cultural studies ; volume 53 |
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Cultural studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 53.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Welcome to The Bronx -- Chapter 1. Approaching the Boogie Down:The Bronx, Popular Culture, and the Poetic Resurrection -- 1.1 Mind the Gap: Historicizing The Bronx -- 1.2 Exploring Urban Spaces: Popular, Media, and Convergence Cultures -- 1.3 Spectacular Ruins: Mapping the Era of Decline in The Bronx -- 1.4 Beyond Ruins: The Poetic Resurrection -- Chapter 2. The Bronx is Not Lost:Remembering the Success Story in Literature |
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2.1 "I was the queen of my block": Polish Immigration, Tremont Challenges, and Jewish American Female Empowerment in Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood (1982) -- 2.2 "I hoped we would not let happen to the entire world what we had let happen to The Bronx": Highbridge Masculinity, Jewish Humor, and the Global Dimensions of Devastation in Growing Up Bronx (1984) -- 2.3 "I was trading in my dreams of the fifties for a new beginning": Kingsbridge Memories, Jewish American Masculinity, and Post-Industrial Well-Being in The Old Neighborhood (1980) -- 2.4 Conclusion |
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Chapter 3. Zooming in on the Devastation:The Bronx as an Urban Frontier in Film -- 3.1 "It's a fort in hostile territory, you understand?": Colonial Encounters, Irish American Heroism, and Precinct Skepticism in Fort Apache: The Bronx (1981) -- 3.2 "I hate kids, especially yours": Italian American Domesticity, Frontier Femininity, and Gangster Journeys in Gloria (1980) -- 3.3 "South Bronx and Wall Street: They are both dead": Gothic Ruins, Supernatural Creatures, and the Postcolonial Politics of Decline in Wolfen (1981) -- 3.4 Conclusion |
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Chapter 4. Creating a New Popular Culture:Re-Imagining the American Dream in Hip-Hop -- 4.1 "We are all graffiti artists": Visual Creativity, Puerto Rican Romance, and a Local Success Story in Wild Style (1982) -- 4.2 "It's like a jungle sometimes": Afrodiasporic Masculinity, Youth Resilience, and Genre Innovation in "The Message" (1982) -- 4.3 "A self-starting culture": Grassroots Agency, Media Diversity, and Coffee Table Gentrification in Born in The Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip-Hop (2007) -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Conclusions. Global Dimensions of the Poetic Resurrection |
| Summary |
While in the late 1970s many Americans dismissed the cultural potential of the Bronx by claiming that "The Bronx is burning," this study challenges that assumption. This first-ever study on The Bronx in American popular culture shows how a wide variety of cultural representations engaged in a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina Nitzsche argues that popular culture functioned as a poetic resurrection of The Bronx, an artistic and imaginative rebirth, which preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough. This poetic resurrection inspired the artistic rebirth of distressed communities across the US until today |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 18, 2020) |
| Subject |
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
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Literature
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Motion pictures
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Songs
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| SUBJECT |
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- In popular culture -- History -- 20th century
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- In literature -- History -- 20th century
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- In motion pictures -- History -- 20th century
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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Songs and music -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
New York (State) -- New York -- Bronx
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3839453119 |
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9783839453117 |
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