The Culture Of Urban Fear
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The Dying City
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Author : Brian L. Tochterman
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-05-08
The Dying City written by Brian L. Tochterman and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-08 with History categories.
In this eye-opening cultural history, Brian Tochterman examines competing narratives that shaped post–World War II New York City. As a sense of crisis rose in American cities during the 1960s and 1970s, a period defined by suburban growth and deindustrialization, no city was viewed as 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. Tochterman reveals how elite culture producers, planners and theorists, and elected officials drew on and perpetuated the fear of death to press for a new urban vision. It was this narrative of New York as the dying city, Tochterman argues, that contributed to a burgeoning and broad anti-urban political culture hostile to state intervention on behalf of cities and citizens. Ultimately, the author shows that New York's decline--and the decline of American cities in general--was in part a self-fulfilling prophecy bolstered by urban fear and the new political culture nourished by it.
The Dying City
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Author : Brian Tochterman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Dying City written by Brian Tochterman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with City planning categories.
In this eye-opening cultural history, Brian Tochterman examines competing narratives that shaped post-WWII New York City. Tochterman reveals how elite culture producers, planners and theorists, and elected officials drew on and perpetuated the fear of death to press for a new urban vision.
Welcome To Fear City
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Author : Nathan Holmes
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2018-09-26
Welcome To Fear City written by Nathan Holmes and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-26 with History categories.
Analyzes how location-shot crime films of the 1970s reflected and influenced understandings of urban crisis. The early 1970s were a moment of transformation for both the American city and its cinema. As intensified suburbanization, racial division, deindustrialization, and decaying infrastructure cast the future of the city in doubt, detective films, blaxploitation, police procedurals, and heist films confronted spectators with contemporary scenes from urban streets. Welcome to Fear City argues that the location-shot crime films of the 1970s were part of a larger cultural ambivalence felt toward urban life, evident in popular magazines, architectural discourse, urban sociology, and visual culture. Yet they also helped to reinvigorate the city as a site of variegated experience and a positively disordered public lifein stark contrast to the socially homogenous and spatially ordered suburbs. Discussing the design of parking garages and street lighting, the dynamics of mugging, panoramas of ruin, and the optics of undercover police operations in such films as Klute, The French Connection, Detroit 9000, Death Wish, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Nathan Holmes demonstrates that crime genres did not simply mirror urban settings and social realities, but actively produced and circulated new ideas about the shifting surfaces of public culture. Rejecting the easy abstractions and postmodern playfulness of noir and neo-noir criticism, Holmes places 1970s crime films, as he says, in relation to the urban context that was their location, setting, and subject. He does this brilliantly, convincingly, and uniquely. David Desser, former editor, Cinema Journal
Urban Obsessions Urban Fears
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Author : John Roger Kurtz
language : en
Publisher: Africa World Press
Release Date : 1998
Urban Obsessions Urban Fears written by John Roger Kurtz and has been published by Africa World Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Cities and towns in literature categories.
Kurtz's analysis the development of the Kenyan novel in English emphasizes the historical contingencies affecting the production of literature in Kenya, and how succeeding generations have drawn from and expanded the thematic repertoire established by the 'first generation' of works in the 1960s.He explores the relationship between the novel and the city, and how obsessions and fears about the urbanization have been expressed and represented through different generations of Kenyan writers. Kurtz has also put together the first annotated bibliography of all the anglophone Kenyan novels that have appeared since Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrote Weep Not, Child.Ngugi's Weep Not, Child made an immediate impact on its publication in 1964. Since then hundreds of novels by Kenyans have been published. This is a comprehensive introduction to the postcolonial novel in English. Three broad areas are identified: -- the first generation of the sixties -- the 'golden age' of the seventies -- and the years after Kenyatta in the 80s and 90sA unifying feature is an uneasy but marked emphasis on the city-particularly Nairobi. The city is used by novelists as both the site and the symbol for a range of obsessions and fears about postcolonial society. There is particular emphasis on the changing ways in which the city has been portrayed since Ngugi's first novel, the relation of popular literature to the city, the portrayal of women in the city and the special status of Meja Mwangi's urban novels.
Urban Fears And Global Terrors
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Author : Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-10-18
Urban Fears And Global Terrors written by Victor Jeleniewski Seidler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-18 with Philosophy categories.
First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Citizens Of Fear
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Author : Katherine Goldman
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2002
Citizens Of Fear written by Katherine Goldman and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Citizens in Latin American cities live in constant fear, amidst some of the most dangerous conditions on earth. In that vast region, 140 thousand people die violently each year, and one out of three citizens have been directly or indirectly victimized by violence. Citizens of Fear, in part, assembles survey results of social scientists who document the pervasiveness of violence. But the numbers tell only part of the story.
City Limits
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Author : Keith Hayward
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-18
City Limits written by Keith Hayward and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-18 with Law categories.
City Limits contributes to a growing body of work under the umbrella of 'cultural criminology'. It incorporates an impressive array of literature from beyond the boundaries of traditional criminology and makes a challenging and enlightening read.
The Urban Fabric Of Crime And Fear
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Author : Vania Ceccato
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-06-21
The Urban Fabric Of Crime And Fear written by Vania Ceccato and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-21 with Social Science categories.
How does the city’s urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear? Does the urban environment affect one’s decision to commit an offence? Is there a victimisation-related inequality within cities? How do crime and fear interrelate to inequality and segregation in cities of developing countries? What are the challenges to planning cities which are both safe and sustainable? This book searches for answers to these questions in the nature of the city, particularly in the social interactions that take place in urban space distinctively guided by different land uses and people’s activities. In other words, the book deals with the urban fabric of crime and fear. The novelty of the book is to place safety and security issues on the urban scale by (1) showing links between urban structure, and crime and fear, (2) illustrating how different disciplines deal with urban vulnerability to (and fear of) crime (3) including concrete examples of issues and challenges found in European and North American cities, and, without being too extensive, also in cities of the Global South.
Fear In Bongoland
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Author : Marc Sommers
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2001
Fear In Bongoland written by Marc Sommers and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Law categories.
But these young men nonetheless join migrants in "Bongoland" (meaning "Brainland") where, as the nickname suggests, only the shrewdest and most cunning can survive.".
Our Fears Made Manifest
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Author : Ashley Jae Carranza
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-02-10
Our Fears Made Manifest written by Ashley Jae Carranza and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-10 with Performing Arts categories.
The beginning of the 21st century was a time of unprecedented events in American society: Y2K, 9/11 and the wars that followed, partisan changes in government and the rapid advancements of the Internet and mass consumerism. In the two decades since, popular culture--particularly film--has manifested the underlying anxieties of the American psyche. This collection of new essays examines dozens of movies released 1998-2020 and how they drew upon and spoke to mass cultural fears. Contributors analyze examples across a range of genres--horror, teen rom-coms, military flicks, slow-burns, and animated children's films--covering topics including gender and sexuality, environmental politics, technophobia, xenophobia, and class and racial inequality.