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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810254203321

Titolo

The city since 9/11 : literature, film, television / / edited by Keith Wilhite

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, [Wisconsin] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-61147-719-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Disciplina

813/.609358209732

Soggetti

American fiction - 21st century - History and criticism

Cities and towns in literature

Motion pictures - History - 21st century

Cities and towns in motion pictures

Television programs - United States - History - 21st century

Cities and towns on television

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Remapping the City; Chapter One: Navigating the Post-9/11 Metropolis; Chapter Two: Million Dollar Views; Chapter Three: New York Unearthed; Chapter Four: Rhetoric and Aesthetics of the Ephemeral in Ronald Sukenick's Last Fall; Chapter Five: The Reality of Fiction in a Virtually Postmodern Metropolis; 2: The Metropolis Unmoored; Chapter Six: Zombies, the Uncanny, and the City; Chapter Seven: The Spectral City; Chapter Eight: Global Homesickness in William Gibson's Blue Ant Trilogy; Chapter Nine: Before After

Chapter Ten: Shifting the City's Center within Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers3: Framing the City; Chapter Eleven: Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men; Chapter Twelve: Abject Spaces in The Bridge and The Killing; Chapter Thirteen: Gritty Urban Realism as Ideology; Chapter Fourteen: Early Cinema and the Post-9/11 City; Ruins and Memorials; Index; About the Contributors



Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes post-9/11 literature, film, and television through an interdisciplinary lens, taking into account contemporary debates about spatial practices, gentrification, cosmopolitanism, memory and history, nostalgia, the uncanny and the abject, postmodern virtuality, the politics of realism, and the economic and social life of cities. Featuring an international group of scholars, the volume theorizes how literary and visual representations expose the persistent conflicts that arise as cities rebuild in the shadow of past ruins.