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The city's end : two centuries of fantasies, fears, and premonitions of New York's destruction
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"Max Page examines the destruction fantasies created by American writers and imagemakers at various stages of New York's development. Seen in every medium from newspapers and films to novels, paint...
"Max Page examines the destruction fantasies created by American writers and imagemakers at various stages of New York's development. Seen in every medium from newspapers and films to novels, paintings, and computer software, such images, though disturbing, have been continuously popular. Page demonstrates with vivid examples and illustrations how each era's destruction genre has reflected the city's economic, political, racial, or physical tensions, and he also shows how the images have become forces in their own right, shaping Americans' perceptions of New York and of cities in general."--Jacket.
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- Creator
- Max Page
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- 271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780300110265, 030011026X
- OCLC
- ocn189666685
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-256) and index.
- Beauty and terror -- "Horrors were their delight" : terrifying and thrilling wars at home and invasions from abroad -- Utopian and dystopian fantasies of the "Stone Colossus" in the 1920s and 1930s -- "Falls Rome, falls the world" : atomic fears of the 1940s and 1950s -- Escape from New York : fictions of a city's decline and rebirth -- The future of the city's end : New York and its fantasies after 9/11
Subjects
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Disasters in literature.
- Disasters in art.
- Disaster films -- History and criticism.
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Influence.
- New York (N.Y.) -- In literature.
- New York (N.Y.) -- In art.
- New York (N.Y.) -- In motion pictures.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Civilization.