Research Catalog

Title

The dying city : postwar New York and the ideology of fear / Brian Tochterman.

Author

Tochterman, Brian

Publication

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

xiii, 277 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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"--

Series Statement

Studies in United States culture

Uniform Title

Studies in United States culture.

Alternative Title

Postwar New York and the ideology of fear

Subjects

• Fear > Social aspects
• Fear > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > In literature
• New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century
• United States
• New York (State) > New York
• Literatur
• New York (N.Y.) > History > 1951-
• New York (N.Y.) > In motion pictures
• History
• Since 1898
• New York (N.Y.) > History > 1898-1951
• Intellectual life
• New York
• Film
• Literature
• Motion pictures

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-268) and index.

Source (note)

• Brian Tochterman

Contents

Introduction -- Part I. Highbrow versus hard-boiled : literary visions of New York, 1947-1952. 1. E. B. White's Cosmopolis -- 2. Mickey Spillane's Necropolis -- Part II. Cancer and death : New York narratives in planning theory, 1953-1961. 3. The case for municipal surgery -- 4. On planning Necropolis -- Part III. The other New York : intellectuals in Necropolis, 1961-1967. 5. Farewell to the universal city -- 6. Untangling the pathologies of ungovernability -- Part IV. Detour to Fun City : cultural responses to the death of New York, 1967-1985. 7. Fear City on film -- 8. The lure of decay -- Epilogue.

Call Number

JFE 17-10757

ISBN

• 9781469633053
• 1469633051
• 9781469633060
• 146963306X

LCCN

2016047325

OCLC

960276814

Author

Tochterman, Brian, author.

Title

The dying city : postwar New York and the ideology of fear / Brian Tochterman.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in United States culture

Studies in United States culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-268) and index.

Local Note

Library's copy signed by author. (Copy in JFE 18-8801).

Source

Gift; Brian Tochterman 2018.

Chronological Term

Since 1898

Research Call Number

JFE 17-10757

JFE 18-8801