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Author Tochterman, Brian, author

Title The dying city : postwar New York and the ideology of fear / Brian Tochterman
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages)
Series Studies in United States culture
Studies in United States culture.
Contents Highbrow vs. hard-boiled: literary visions of New York, 1947-1952. E.B. White's cosmopolis ; Mickey Spillane's necropolis -- Cancer and death: New York narratives in planning theory, 1953-1961. The case for municipal surgery ; On planning necropolis -- Intellectuals interrogate necropolis, 1961-1967. Farewell to the universal city ; Untangling the pathologies of ungovernability -- Detour to Fun City: cultural responses to the death of New York, 1967-1985. Fear City on film ; The lure of decay
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Fear -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Fear -- Social aspects
Intellectual life
Literature
Motion pictures
SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95005016
New York (N.Y.) -- In literature
New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89006035
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091426
New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091425
Subject New York (State) -- New York
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469633077
1469633078
9781469633084
1469633086