New York, New York! : urban spaces, dreamscapes, contested territories /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang Edition, 2016.
Description:	233 pages ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Transcription, Cultures, Concepts, Controversies = Kulturen, Konzepte, Kontroversen, 1613-8414 ; Vol./Bd. 8 Transcription (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; v. 8.
Subject:	City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York. Social change -- New York (State) -- New York. Arts, American -- New York (State) -- New York. Arts and society -- New York (State) -- New York. Arts, American. Arts and society. City and town life. Intellectual life. Literature. Manners and customs. Social change. New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life. New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs. New York (N.Y.) -- In art. New York (N.Y.) -- In literature. New York (State) -- New York.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10490655

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Other authors / contributors:	Sielke, Sabine, 1959- editor.
ISBN:	9783631665541 3631665547 9783653052114
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"Once a center of transatlantic cultural exchange and the avant-garde arts, New York City has transformed into a global metropolis. This book traces a shift that took shape as cultural practices and media underwent dramatic changes: it takes us from modernist visions of urban sublimity to postmodernist cityscapes; from Hart Crane's Brooklyn Bridge to the Flushing Meadows fairgrounds; from Mina Loy's poetics to Klaus Nomi's transgressive musical performances and Jem Cohen's multimedia experiments; from Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and the Magnum Photos portfolio to post-9/11 cinema and the photo blogs of the internet age. As we visit these urban spaces and dreamscapes, we enter territories that remain contested, dynamic locales in a city that keeps unfolding its transformative force"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

"New York, New York!": Introduction
New York as Seen, Imaged, and Imagined
"New York Israel" and the Poetry of Mina Loy
The Menace of the New: Mourning "The World of Tomorrow" at the 1939 New York World's Fair
Walkers in the City: Literature, Film, and the Figure of the Flaneur in New York City
Magnum's New York
New York, New Hollywood, Trauma: Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver Revisited
Alien Voice Transformations: Klaus Nomi's Appearance on the Scene of New York's Subculture
Fresh Wounds, Old Heroes: 9/11 in American Cinema
Remediating the Capital of Photography: New York Daily Photo Blogs
New York - Global City?
Beautiful Catastrophe: A New York City Bibliography
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